Doctor killed in Pakistan called ‘servant of humanity’

Senseless, senseless.

The Columbus Dispatch
Doctor killed in Pakistan called ‘servant of humanity’
Associated Press • Thursday June 5, 2014

VAUGHAN, Ontario — A central Ohio cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan in front of his wife and 2-year-old son was remembered yesterday as a selfless humanitarian who was murdered because of his faith.

A burial ceremony for Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar included impassioned calls for Canada to pressure Pakistan to better protect religious minorities against extremism.

Qamar, 51, was originally from Pakistan and belonged to the minority Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, also known as Ahmadis. He was a dual American and Canadian citizen who had lived in Pickerington for the past decade.

Qamar, who had returned to Pakistan to volunteer at a hospital, was gunned down on May 26 in the central town of Chanab Nagar as he and his family left a cemetery after visiting relatives’ graves....

MORE at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/06/05/doctor-called-servant-of-humanity.html