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Taseer's killer Mumtaz Qadri hanged
 [DAWN] Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando convicted of killing former Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... governor Salman Taseer, was executed at the Adiala Jail at around 4.30am on Monday, police said. Qadri shot Taseer 28 times in broad daylight in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market on January 4, 2011. He was sentenced to death for assassinating Taseer on Oct 1 the same year. Qadri said he killed Taseer over what he called the politician's vocal opposition to blasphemy laws of the country. His mercy appeal was rejected by President Mamnoon Hussain. "I can confirm that Qadri was hanged in Adialia jail early Monday morning," senior local police official Sajjid Gondal told AFP. A prison official confirmed the execution of Qadri. Cries were heard from inside Qadri's house as hundreds of men and women gathered, and mosques could be heard broadcasting news of the execution, an AFP news hound there said. "I have no regrets," Qadri's brother Malik Abid told AFP, tears rolling down his cheeks. He said the family had been called to the prison Sunday evening by officials who said Qadri was unwell. But when they arrived, he greeted them with the news that authorities had deceived them, and that his execution was imminent. "We started crying, but he hugged us," Abid said. Two weeks after Taseer was killed, the only Christian minister in the federal cabinet, Shahbaz Bhatti, was bumped off in Islamabad. He too was a critic of the blasphemy laws. In August 2011, Taseer's son was kidnapped from his car in Lahore. Shahbaz Taseer’s wherabouts remain untraced. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-01 |
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