Salman Taseer Killer

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.

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.

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.

The assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer today confessed in a Pakistani court that he had acted alone in killing the politician and that he had been planning the attack before being deployed to guard him.Even as suspicion lingered that he was part of a conspiracy, Mumtaz Qari denied that he was influenced by any political or religious group.Q...

A video showing Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin singing a hymn while in police custody has appeared on several websites, prompting Pakistani intelligence agencies to launch an investigation to determine how it was circulated.The video, shot with a mobile phone, shows Mumtaz Qadri, the police guard who gunned down Taseer in Islamabad on Tu...

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.

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.

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.

The assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer today confessed in a Pakistani court that he had acted alone in killing the politician and that he had been planning the attack before being deployed to guard him.Even as suspicion lingered that he was part of a conspiracy, Mumtaz Qari denied that he was influenced by any political or religious group.Q...

A video showing Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin singing a hymn while in police custody has appeared on several websites, prompting Pakistani intelligence agencies to launch an investigation to determine how it was circulated.The video, shot with a mobile phone, shows Mumtaz Qadri, the police guard who gunned down Taseer in Islamabad on Tu...