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Salman Taseer (Punjabi and Urdu: سلمان تاثیر; () 31 May 1944 – 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011.
Feb 29, 2016 · Pakistan hangs the former police bodyguard who shot dead the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, over his opposition to blasphemy laws, officials say.
Jan 4, 2011 · The influential governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad. Mr Taseer, a senior member of the...
Salman Taseer, the Punjab governor who was gunned down by one of his bodyguards January 4, was a rare politician in Pakistan. He was an avowed liberal, a vocal opponent of extremism, and a...
Oct 1, 2011 · A Pakistani court has found guilty and sentenced to death the police bodyguard who killed Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in January. Mumtaz Qadri had confessed to murder on the grounds that he...
Jan 4, 2011 · Jan. 4, 2011. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The assassination of an outspoken secular politician by one of his elite police guards on Tuesday plunged the government deeper into political crisis and...
Mar 1, 2016 · Reuters. Thousands of Pakistanis have turned out for the funeral of a former bodyguard executed for killing Punjab's governor over his opposition to blasphemy laws. Security was tight as a crowd...
