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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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  Shahbaz Taseer, Kidnapped Son Of Assassinated Pak Governor, Found After 5 Years

  The kidnapped son of a liberal Pakistani governor assassinated by his bodyguard has been found, senior officials said today, just over a week after his father's killer was hanged.

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  Pakistan Hangs Islamist Who Killed Blasphemy Reform Governor: Police

  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.

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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.

• 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...

• Lawyers' support for Taseer's assassin worries Pak

  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...

• Two channels fined for airing interview of Pak Governor's assassin

  Two TV news channels have been fined Rs 1 million by Pakistan's media regulatory watchdog for airing an interview of the assassin of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer.The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) imposed the fines on Samaa and Waqt channels for airing the interview of Mumtaz Qadri, who gunned down Taseer is I...

• A Pakistani assassin's long reach

  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...

• Pak Governor Salman Taseer's assassin garlanded

  Lawyers showered the suspected killer of a prominent Pakistani governor with rose petals when he arrived at court on Wednesday and an influential Muslim scholars' group praised the assassination of the outspoken opponent of laws that order death for those who insult Islam.Mumtaz Qadri, 26, made his first appearance in an Islamabad court, where a ju...

• 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...