Salmaan Taseer Assassination

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  Lahore Tense Over Clerics' Call To Celebrate Taseer's Assassination

  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.

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  Pakistan Governor Salmaan Taseer's Killer Loses Bid To Review Death Sentence

  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.

• Pak Taliban admit to holding Shahbaz Taseer for first time

  A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...

• Judge who convicted Taseer's assassin sent to Saudi Arabia

  The Pakistani government has packed off the judge, who gave the death sentence to Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's self-confessed assassin, to Saudi Arabia after he received death threats from religious extremists.

• Pakistani song questions Ajmal Kasab's treatment as 'hero'

  The latest Pakistani song to have gone viral on the Internet pokes fun at Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai attacker, being treated like a "hero" in his home country and slain Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin being treated like a "nawab".

• Pak judge who convicts Taseer's killer goes on leave

  The Pakistani judge who passed the death sentence on the assassin of Governor Salmaan Taseer today went on an indefinite leave, a day after his courtroom was attacked by lawyers and hardline Islamic groups warned the government against implementing the verdict.

• Pak court gives death sentence to Salmaan Taseer's assassin

  A Pakistani anti-terrorism court handed down the death sentence to the police guard on Friday. The guard had assassinated Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for calling for changes in the country's controversial blasphemy law.

• Guard pleads guilty in Pak governor Salmaan Taseer's murder

  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...

• Taseer's assassin guarded Zardari too: Report

  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...

• How Pak media's reporting Taseer assassination

  Describing as "utter madness" the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer by one of his guards who was angered by his opposition to blasphemy law, the Pakistani media on Wednesday said it was a reflection of the growing "cancer of intolerance" in the society.     Taseer was an outspoken critic of the blasphemy law and "p...