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Salman Taseer murder: Pakistan hangs Mumtaz Qadri
Pakistan has hanged the former police bodyguard who shot dead Punjab's governor over his opposition to blasphemy laws, officials say.
Mumtaz Qadri killed Salman Taseer in Islamabad in 2011, in a murder that shocked the country.
Qadri was hailed as a hero by some Islamist groups, and thousands of hard-line activists protested to show their support for him at the time.
After news of his execution, crowds again took to the streets in protest.
Security forces have been put on high alert and a heavy police presence, including riot police, are in place in the area around Qadri's home in Islamabad, AFP news agency reports.
His funeral will be held on Tuesday at Liaquat Bagh park in nearby Rawalpindi, where large numbers of mourners are expected.
Prison officials said Qadri was executed at 04:30 local time (23:30 GMT) at Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad.
What are Pakistan's blasphemy laws?
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It was shortly after sunset in Islamabad on January 4, 2011. Almost every liberal in Pakistan remembers exactly where they were that day, and that moment, when all illusions of security – and their sense of place within Pakistani society – came crashing down: the Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was shot and killed by one of his own bodyguards, on grounds that he had the audacity to suggest that there may have been a miscarriage of justice against a woman accused of blasphemy.
Shehryar Taseer remembers that day more clearly than just about anyone else: the man killed was his father, and the day was his 25th birthday.
“I was with him [that day] in our house in Kohsar Market in Islamabad. Just 30 feet from my house, where I was sitting, on my birthday, my father was assassinated,” said Shehryar, in an interview with Profit.
Before he was killed on that day, before he became a politically active Governor of the country’s largest province, and long before he gained his Twitter following, however, Salmaan Taseer was an icon in Corporate Pakistan, and the founder of a collection of businesses that were known to punch above their weight in terms of economic significance.
The elder Taseer will indelibly be remembered for his political legacy, and justifiably so. But lost in
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Kidnapping of Shahbaz Taseer
Kidnapping
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Life All along Hostage Situation
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