Last Rites: Slain doctor remembered in Canada

The North American cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan in front of his wife and two-year-old son was remembered on Wednesday as a selfless humanitarian, the Associated Press reported. A burial ceremony for Dr Mehdi Ali Qamar saw impassioned calls for Canada to pressure Pakistan to better protect religious minorities. Qamar, 51, belonged to the Ahmadiyya community and was a dual American and Canadian citizen who had lived in Ohio for the last decade. Qamar had returned to Pakistan to volunteer at Tahir Heart Institute and was gunned down on May 26 in Rabwah as he and his family left a cemetery after visiting relatives’ graves.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 6^th, 2014.