The Gray Lady continues the fashionable trend in journalism:
Extremists Are Suspected in Killing of Pakistani Minister
Irfan Haider/Associated Press
Police officers and paramedics transported the body of Pakistan’s minister of minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, who was shot dead on Thursday in Islamabad.
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Mr. Bhatti was heading for a cabinet meeting when three or four gunmen ambushed his car outside his house in a middle-class neighborhood of the capital, Islamabad, and shot him multiple times as he sat in the back seat, the police said.
The killers, dressed in traditional Pakistani garb of baggy pants and long tunic, fled the scene in a white car. The hospital where Mr. Bhatti was pronounced dead said 20 bullets had been fired.
A pamphlet found at the site warned against changes in the blasphemy law and was signed by militants, police officials said. It specifically named Mr. Bhatti.
A spokesman for the Taliban, who is based in Punjab, later called Pakistani media and claimed responsibility for the assassination…
The LA Times’ headline however is to the point and actually informative:
Pakistan’s only Christian Cabinet member assassinated
Shahbaz Bhatti, the minority affairs minister, is the second top Pakistani official to be killed over his opposition to a blasphemy law that critics say is often misused to persecute minorities.
