The fundamentalists flex their muscles

Pakistan's law minister Zahid Hamid resigned late on Sunday to bring the country "out of a state of crisis" after weeks-long protests by Islamists+ who said he "blasphemed", reported Pakistani media.

The Islamists ended their three-week-long protests after Hamid's resignation.The Pakistani government and the protesters+ had earlier agreed the latter would end the protests if he resigned.

Zahid Hamid is lucky that these Muslims only asked for his resignation for the charge of blasphemy. If he was a poor nobody, then he'd already be dead.