Mumtaz Qadri Support

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...