According to the US Census Bureau, approximately 35,000 New Yorkers (out of a total population of slightly more than 8 million) claimed Pakistani ancestry in the 2000 Census. That amounts to about 0.4 percent of the entire population of the city. So why is New York City Mayor Bloomberg so fast to issue a statement on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto?

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