Only two months earlier, the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, had been assassinated by his own bodyguards, but Bhatti was not even provided with bodyguards and, therefore, presented the easiest of targets to the heavily armed terrorists who cut him down on his way to a cabinet meeting.
Juste deux mois auparavant, le gouverneur du Penjab, M. Salman Taseer, avait été assassiné par l’un de ses gardes du corps.