Paul Bhatti

Paul Jacob Bhatti is a Pakistani politician and surgeon. He is the former federal minister in charge of National Harmony and Minorities Affairs. He served as a minister in the government of then President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.

Early life He obtained his basic degree of Doctor in Medicine, and Surgery (MD) from the University of Padua in Italy.

In the course of his struggle, he supported and saved several innocent victims of violence and specially got involved in the protection of (Rimsha Masih blasphemy case) a girl of 14 years. Rimsha was falsely accused of blasphemy by an imam of the area, who later was detained on 1 September 2012, for desecrating the Quran himself and tampering with evidence.

On 22 October 2013, Bhatti with Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan Greg Giokas inaugurated a new solar-powered irrigation plant-irrigation in the village of Khushpur in Punjab.

On 2 July 2014, Bhatti participated as Keynote Speaker at the event organised on the occasion of The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and To mark the beginning of the Italian Presidency of the European Union.