This isn’t the first time that Mr. Gill has been the subject of attack for his legal work on behalf of the minorities of Pakistan, including mother-of-five, Asia Bibi, who is on death row for standing up for Jesus.
Source/Credit: ASSIST News Service
By Dan Wooding | April 1, 2015
LAHORE – The brother of Sardar Mushtaq Gill, the well-known Pakistani human rights defender and Chief Counsel of the Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD), was shot in the Lahore area.
The shooting took place on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at about 12:45 PM (Pakistan time), when the brother was attacked by an alleged Muslim man who is said to have shot him with a pistol.
According to a statement from LEAD (http://leadfamily.blogspot.com), he sustained a bullet wound to his lower back and was rushed to the Jinah Hospital in Lahore, where he was operated on to remove the bullet.
Sardar Mushtaq Gill has now requested police protection for himself and his family.
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LEAD is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in the province of Punjab, that provides legal aid to marginalized people and defends the rights of religious minorities in Pakistan. Sardar Mushtaq Gill has been especially campaigning against the use of blasphemy laws to target minorities, but as he has discovered, this is a dangerous thing to do in Pakistan.
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