A famous Pakistani politician who had fought for the liberation of Christian Bibi Asia and the abolition of the blasphemy laws and cruel 'was assassinated today in the heart of Islamabad. Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab and loyal to the presiodente Asif Ali Zardari, and 'was riddled with bullets from his body guard resented his very liberal attitude towards those who insult the name of Mohammed. The killing and 'coincided with a serious political crisis in which two days and' plunged the country after the withdrawal by the government of an influential regional party in power in the province of Sindh that has left Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani no a majority. But every political dispute will be 'suspended for the next three days of national mourning were declared. The attack also raised a wave of street protests by supporters of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) which belonged to the victim. The stages of alert and fire in different cities' of Punjab for tuimore disorders. The sixty-five
Taseer, former minister in Regomir of Pervez Mushaffar and targeted by Islamic extremists for its liberal views, was in the afternoon in a popular district in the capital attended by diplomats and tourists. According to local media rcostrzuine based on testimonies, had just left his residence and was about to board the car, when a bodyguard of belonging to an elite command and took out an AK47 machine gun shot him nine shots at close range. The governor and 'fell in a puddle of blood and was transported to a nearby hospital where a' joint body. Soon after its action, the agent called muntaz Malik Hussain Qadri (26 years) threw the murder weapon and and 'surrendered to colleagues. After being arrested, he confessed the reasons of his people, who as interior minister told reporters Rehman Malik, and 'linked to the recent controversy over the law of blasphemy were born after the sentencing to death of Bibi. ''I killed him 'cause he called the law a''Kanoon kala'', a expression, which in Urdu means''black legend''and that means for legislative measures that have negative consequences. For a television while they were taking him to the police station then said that Salman Taseer was blasphemous and that was Quelala puncture for blasphemous''
The law, introduced at the time of the dictator Zia ul Haq, and 'as used by the radical fringe form of persecution against religious minorities. After the uproar of the story of Bibi, the government has promised to introduce amendments that will, however, are 'strongly opposed by religious parties.
had been precisely to the Governor Taseer sided with the mother of five children going to visit her in prison, where he is about two years. In the occasion claimed to have submitted an application for clemency to President Zardari, of which 'a close collaborator. Precisely for this reason and for a series of television interviews, including a wing in which CNN called for amendments, had created many enemies among the radical Islamic fringe. In a post on Twitter, on Friday 'last,''he wrote to be under huge pressure''from the right who wanted to bend it and that''it was refused. Even though I'm the last to remain standing.'' Prophetic words that testify to the tense atmosphere in the country due to the ongoing debate sull'obsoleta law.
In a message today, Zardari has described the killing as''a crime of the most 'horrific''and promised to do justice.
The brutal murder has shocked the entire country for months and 'split right on the reform of the controversial blasphemy law and recall anxche aggravating the political crisis in which'; plunged the government of Gilani, threatened by the opposition that its ogi has given 72 hours to accept some tax reforms and repeal the unpopular rise in gasoline.
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