Salman Taseer Shooting

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...

The assassination last week of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail of gunfire. But it was Pakistan's reaction to the killing of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer -- starting with the rose petals showered on th...

TWENTY-SEVEN. That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad....

The governor of Pakistan's wealthiest and most populous province was shot dead in the capital on Tuesday by one of his own guards, who later told interrogators that he was angry about the politician's stance against the country's blasphemy law, officials said. (Read and watch: Pak Punjab Governor assassinated by guard)Bullet casings and blood cover...

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...

The assassination last week of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail of gunfire. But it was Pakistan's reaction to the killing of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer -- starting with the rose petals showered on th...

TWENTY-SEVEN. That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad....

The governor of Pakistan's wealthiest and most populous province was shot dead in the capital on Tuesday by one of his own guards, who later told interrogators that he was angry about the politician's stance against the country's blasphemy law, officials said. (Read and watch: Pak Punjab Governor assassinated by guard)Bullet casings and blood cover...