ISLAMABAD: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was attacked and killed in a firing incident in Islamabad’s Kohsar market on Tuesday.
5:10pm
Interior Minister Rehman Malik will head the enquiry into Governor Punjab’s assassination.
Karachi has been put on high alert after the attack.
26 year old Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (Note the peaceful smile on his face)
5:06pm
Syed Ali reporting for Express 24/7 confirmed that Governor Punjab has been pronounced dead. Initial reports suggest Taseer received a critical head injury.
5:03pm
The Governor of Punjab was leaving his residence in Islamabad when one of his guards shot him in the chest.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani have condoled over the death of the Punjab Governor.
An eyewitness, while speaking to the police, has provided his account of how the gunman aimed at Taseer and shot him.
5:00pm
The alleged suspect ‘Qadri’ was allegedly part of Rawalpindi’s elite force, Express 24/7 reported.
The suspect is being held and interrogated by Rawalpindi police.
4:50pm
The hospital says the Governor received nine bullets.
4:48pm
Attackers were part of the governor’s convoy, witnesses say.
4:46pm
Police source say they have arrested a suspect in the attack.
Zulfiqar Mirza, Sindh Home Minister Qaim Ali Shah, as well as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack.
4:30pm
The governor died on the spot, according to governor house spokesman Farrukh Shah.
Salman Taseer Wining & Dining
According to initial reports, unidentified persons fired upon the governor’s convoy and he was shifted to the Polyclinic hospital for treatment.
Witnesses said that two uniformed personnel attacked him.
Update:
It has been learned through various sources that the name of the Assassin is Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri. After killing Salman Taseer, the youngman is said to have handed over himself to the authorities and claimed that he infact murdered Salman Taseer for his vocal support on undermining and striking off the Blasphemy law in Pakistan, as had been anticipated by PKKH earlier.
The assassin, “confessed that he killed the governor himself because he had called the blasphemy law a black law,” said the interior minister Rehman Malik.
“He has confessed his crime and surrendered his gun to police after the attack,” he added.
Taseer has recently spoken out against the country’s blasphemy law.
Salmaan Taseer was a member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). He was appointed to the post of governor Punjab on 15 May 2008.
Taseer was also the chairman and CEO of the First Capital and Worldcall Group.
Editor’s note:
Salman Taseer, very well known for his high-handedness in corruptions, one of the close cronies of our infamous President Asif Ali Zardari was murdered by members of the elite force that was assigned to provide him security. One of the major reasons that seems to surface is that Salman Taseer was very vocal against the Blasphemy laws, and had undermined the significance of these laws in Pakistan. Fauzia Wahab in her interview to different channels have referred to Salman Taseer as a “Shaheed”. We would like to inform Fauzia Wahab that a Gustakh-e-Rasool deserves to die and cannot be a martyr in any case. We condemn Fauzia Wahab’s infamous statements.
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