“One more liberal voice silenced,” was how the media here on Thursday described the killing of sole Christian minister in Pakistan’s Cabinet, Shahbaz Bhatti, while charging the PPP-led government with “retreating in the battle against fanaticism and intolerance”.
“A resolute silence when confronted by...extremists,” screamed Dawn newspaper as it questioned the government’s efforts to tackle growing extremism in society, a day after Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was killed by militants for seeking reform of the controversial blasphemy law.
The brazen killing of 42-year-old Bhatti was mourned by the entire spectrum of the Pakistani media, which said that the extremist mindset was taking the country towards “chaos”.
The minister’s brutal murder just a short distance from his home should serve as a “wake-up call” for the government to crack down on radical elements, the media said.
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