Mumtaz Qadri

The head of a new Pakistani Islamist party that lionizes the killer of a provincial governor said it would take its rallying cry of "death to blasphemers" to next year's general election, after its surprisingly strong showing in a recent vote.

Over 100 clerics were arrested in Punjab province on Wednesday for attempting to hold a rally in Lahore to "celebrate" the sixth anniversary of the assassination of the then Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer.

Islamist protesters gathered in the Pakistani capital said today they would not end their days-long sit-in and were "willing to die", as armed security forces readied to clear the camp.

Thousands of supporters of an executed Islamist assassin were holding a sit-in in Islamabad today after submitting a list of demands including the execution of a female Christian blasphemy convict.

A powerful blast ripped through a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday evening, killing at least 52 people and wounding at least 200, including women and children, rescue workers and officials said.

In what was termed as a 'revenge attack' against execution of Mumtaz Qadri, a suicide bombing hit a local court in Pehswar killing 10 people today.

Tens of thousands of supporters today cheered and threw flowers at the casket of a bodyguard executed for killing the governor of Pakistan's most populous province over his call to reform a strict blasphemy law.

Pakistan hanged the assassin of a governor today who sought reform of the country's blasphemy law, officials and supporters told AFP, saying Mumtaz Qadri had been executed at a prison in Rawalpindi.

Pakistan's Supreme Court today rejected the review petition against the death sentence of a police bodyguard for assassinating former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer for criticising the country's controversial blasphemy laws.

The confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani Governor pleaded guilty Monday to murder, telling a judge he didn't regret gunning the politician down because he killed "an apostate" as required under his interpretation of Islamic law, lawyers said.Mumtaz Qadri shot dead Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer in January while serving as part of his sec...

The police guard who gunned down Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was assigned to protect key personalities, including Pakistan's President, Prime Minister and foreign delegations and has heightened security fears among the country's elite.Self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was detailed on protection duties on as many as 509 occasions in the past th...

Cheering crowds have gathered in recent days to support the assassin who riddled the governor of Punjab with 26 bullets and to praise his attack -- carried out in the name of the Prophet Muhammad -- as an act of heroism. To the surprise of many, chief among them have been Pakistan's young lawyers, once seen as a force for democracy. Their energetic...

A website eulogising the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, set up by unknown persons, was registered using a fake address in India, Pakistani civil society activists said today.A day after Elite Force policeman Mumtaz Qadri gunned down the outspoken Governor on January 4 for criticising the controversial blasphemy law, the website mumtazq...

The assassination last week of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail of gunfire. But it was Pakistan's reaction to the killing of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer -- starting with the rose petals showered on th...

TWENTY-SEVEN. That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad....

The head of a new Pakistani Islamist party that lionizes the killer of a provincial governor said it would take its rallying cry of "death to blasphemers" to next year's general election, after its surprisingly strong showing in a recent vote.

Over 100 clerics were arrested in Punjab province on Wednesday for attempting to hold a rally in Lahore to "celebrate" the sixth anniversary of the assassination of the then Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer.

Islamist protesters gathered in the Pakistani capital said today they would not end their days-long sit-in and were "willing to die", as armed security forces readied to clear the camp.

Thousands of supporters of an executed Islamist assassin were holding a sit-in in Islamabad today after submitting a list of demands including the execution of a female Christian blasphemy convict.

A powerful blast ripped through a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday evening, killing at least 52 people and wounding at least 200, including women and children, rescue workers and officials said.

In what was termed as a 'revenge attack' against execution of Mumtaz Qadri, a suicide bombing hit a local court in Pehswar killing 10 people today.

Tens of thousands of supporters today cheered and threw flowers at the casket of a bodyguard executed for killing the governor of Pakistan's most populous province over his call to reform a strict blasphemy law.

Pakistan hanged the assassin of a governor today who sought reform of the country's blasphemy law, officials and supporters told AFP, saying Mumtaz Qadri had been executed at a prison in Rawalpindi.

Pakistan's Supreme Court today rejected the review petition against the death sentence of a police bodyguard for assassinating former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer for criticising the country's controversial blasphemy laws.

The confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani Governor pleaded guilty Monday to murder, telling a judge he didn't regret gunning the politician down because he killed "an apostate" as required under his interpretation of Islamic law, lawyers said.Mumtaz Qadri shot dead Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer in January while serving as part of his sec...

The police guard who gunned down Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was assigned to protect key personalities, including Pakistan's President, Prime Minister and foreign delegations and has heightened security fears among the country's elite.Self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was detailed on protection duties on as many as 509 occasions in the past th...

Cheering crowds have gathered in recent days to support the assassin who riddled the governor of Punjab with 26 bullets and to praise his attack -- carried out in the name of the Prophet Muhammad -- as an act of heroism. To the surprise of many, chief among them have been Pakistan's young lawyers, once seen as a force for democracy. Their energetic...

A website eulogising the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, set up by unknown persons, was registered using a fake address in India, Pakistani civil society activists said today.A day after Elite Force policeman Mumtaz Qadri gunned down the outspoken Governor on January 4 for criticising the controversial blasphemy law, the website mumtazq...

The assassination last week of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail of gunfire. But it was Pakistan's reaction to the killing of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer -- starting with the rose petals showered on th...

TWENTY-SEVEN. That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad....