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Cardinal Keith O'Brien: "The provision of aid must require a commitment to human rights."

Cardinal Keith O'Brien: "The provision of aid must require a commitment to human rights."

BBC - Church News el Tue, Mar 15th 2011

The church highlighted the assassination of Pakistani minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti at the start of March. Mr Bhatti was the only Christian member of the cabinet in Pakistan. Cardinal O'Brien said: "To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld and those who speak up for religious freedom are gunned down is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.