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Salman Taseer (Urdu: سلمان تاثیر; () 31 May 1944 [1] – 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011. [2]
Over 50 people accused of blasphemy have been murdered before their respective trials were over, [57] [58] and prominent figures who opposed blasphemy laws (Salman Taseer, the former governor of Punjab, and Shahbaz Bhatti, the Federal Minister for Minorities) have been assassinated. [56]
These clauses can be grouped into two categories - the anti-Ahmadi laws and the blasphemy laws." The BBC notes that there is widespread popular support for these laws in Pakistan, and that two prominent critics of these laws, Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti, have been assassinated in 2011. Regarding the blasphemy laws, the BBC observes that ...
- It came to the fore in 2015 in a protest campaign to demand the release of Mumtaz Qadri, a police guard who assassinated Punjab province's governor, Salman Taseer, in 2011 over his calls to ...
- The Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) which was formed as a political party following the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer by his bodyguard has been leading the campaign in support ...
A group of 10 students shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during the attack on Mashal Khan, who was stripped naked and beaten with planks until his skull caved in.
Attacks on irreligious people in Pakistan happen often, with more attacks occurring especially after the introduction of the blasphemy laws in the 21st century. One of the most high-profile cases involved former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was assassinated by his bodyguard in 2011 as a reaction to his public opposition to blasphemy laws ...
Asia Bibi, a Christian farm laborer, was beaten by a mob and arrested for blasphemy in June 2009 after being accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad during an argument. The Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, was shot in 2011, after he publicly voiced his support for Bibi by his own bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri. It took almost a decade to overturn her ...