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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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Nails Pulled Out, Mouth Sewn: Pak Politician's Son Recalls Kidnap By Terrorists
The son of a murdered Pakistani governor has described in chilling detail how he was flogged, shot and had his nails pulled out by Islamic militants during almost five years in captivity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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In Pak, blasphemy law supporters on the streets
Rallies took place in Peshawar and Faisalabad on Sunday in support of Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws that stipulate death for those insulting Islam.About ten-thousand supporters of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party gathered in the northwestern city of Peshawar for a sit-in outside the provincial assembly.In Faisalabad, meanwhile, a large crowd o...
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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...
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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...
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Pak police arrests man who offered Rs 20 million for killing Taseer
Pakistani police have arrested a man who had announced a Rs 20 million prize for anyone who killed Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for opposing the country's controversial blasphemy law.Sardar Ebaad Dogar of Khangarh near Multan was arrested yesterday shortly after Taseer was gunned down by a guard who claimed he was angered by the Governor's opposi...
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Zardari may pardon woman sentenced to death for 'blasphemy'
Pakistan's president may pardon a Christian woman facing a death sentence for blasphemy against Islam, officials said on the weekend, as the mother of five tearfully denied the charge in interviews. Bibi, 45, appeared in a televised interview from her prison on Saturday, protesting her innocence to reporters and insisting the case stemmed from a pe...
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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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Nails Pulled Out, Mouth Sewn: Pak Politician's Son Recalls Kidnap By Terrorists
The son of a murdered Pakistani governor has described in chilling detail how he was flogged, shot and had his nails pulled out by Islamic militants during almost five years in captivity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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In Pak, blasphemy law supporters on the streets
Rallies took place in Peshawar and Faisalabad on Sunday in support of Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws that stipulate death for those insulting Islam.About ten-thousand supporters of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party gathered in the northwestern city of Peshawar for a sit-in outside the provincial assembly.In Faisalabad, meanwhile, a large crowd o...
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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...
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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...
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Pak police arrests man who offered Rs 20 million for killing Taseer
Pakistani police have arrested a man who had announced a Rs 20 million prize for anyone who killed Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for opposing the country's controversial blasphemy law.Sardar Ebaad Dogar of Khangarh near Multan was arrested yesterday shortly after Taseer was gunned down by a guard who claimed he was angered by the Governor's opposi...
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Zardari may pardon woman sentenced to death for 'blasphemy'
Pakistan's president may pardon a Christian woman facing a death sentence for blasphemy against Islam, officials said on the weekend, as the mother of five tearfully denied the charge in interviews. Bibi, 45, appeared in a televised interview from her prison on Saturday, protesting her innocence to reporters and insisting the case stemmed from a pe...
