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Killer of Governor Salman Taseer hanged

M. M. ALAM

RAWALPINDI: Adiala Jail was the venue where Punjab Governor Salman Taseer’s confessed killer Mumtaz Qadri was hanged till death this (Monday) morning.

Punjab Police commando personnel Qadri was  one of the body guards who were supposed to protect the Governor.

But radicalized Qadri, irritated by the thoughts of Salmar Taseer against ‘blasphemy laws’, shot him dead on January 4, 2011 in capital’s Kohsar Market.

Observers believe the infiltration of fundamentalists in law enforcing agencies  is a matter of grave concern.

 

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.