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The Meaning of "Knife", by Tobias Langdon

The Unz Review 01 May 2024
Salman Rushdie is the affirmative-action literary giant ... Salman Rushdie’s ... After all, it’s certain that Qadri would just as happily have machine-gunned Salman Rushdie as he machine-gunned Salmaan Taseer.
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Blasphemy is a crime in Pakistan. Mobs deliver the verdict

The Buffalo News 04 Mar 2024
... an Islamist party initially formed to seek the release of Mumtaz Qadri, a police guard who in 2011 assassinated Salman Taseer, a governor of Punjab who was seeking to overhaul blasphemy laws.
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Pakistan: When a blasphemy accusation is evidence; the sentence often death

Al Jazeera 29 Feb 2024
In the past, we have seen no less a personage than Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab himself – of which Lahore is the capital city – gunned down by his own security guard because he opposed the ...
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WHY IS THE MAULANA SO ANGRY?

Dawn 25 Feb 2024
What is the veteran politician playing at? ... For example, while steadfastly supporting democracy and allied with PPP, he also referred to Mumtaz Qadri as a shaheed [martyr] after he was hanged for murdering PPP’s Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in 2011 ... .
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Much ado about reserved seats: Can PTI get them with SIC’s help?

Dawn 20 Feb 2024
However, its later actions on blasphemy-related issues such as calling for protests against the conviction of Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, demonstrations in the ...
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Hafiz Saeed’s son makes NA-122 battle quite intriguing

The News International 06 Feb 2024
LAHORE ... Ameer Jamatud Dawa, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. — AFP ... The party head, however, is Khalid Sindhu ... In 1997, PMLN came up with Mian Abdul Waheed who won the seat comfortably against PPP's Salman Taseer, who used to be an MPA from the same area in 1988 ... .
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TLP to face challenges due to founder’s absence, ‘uninterested’ power circles

The News International 03 Feb 2024
AFP/File. LAHORE ... The far-right party emerged after the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, who had killed Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab. Rizvi had justified the murder of Salman Taseer ... There were governments of the PMLN in Punjab as well as in centre ... .
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Saad Rizvi — a political dark horse?

Dawn 01 Feb 2024
In 2015, the TLP emerged in response to widespread protests against the execution of Mumtaz Qadri, an elite force commando convicted of the assassination of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer ... On the national level, it bagged 2.19 million votes ... .
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LIVING ON THE POLITICAL EDGE

Dawn 21 Jan 2024
... a police constable who had assassinated the former governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, in 2011 over his calls to reform the blasphemy laws and release Asia Bibi who had been accused of blasphemy.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Addresses Religious Persecution

Longview News-Journal 24 Oct 2023
Qadri was the security officer who assassinated the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, for his support of Asia Bibi and his call for changes in the blasphemy laws.
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6 JUIF workers held for defying Section 144

The News International 14 Oct 2023
The arrested JUIF activists included district general secretary Maulana Salman Taseer, Maulana Habibul Hassan, ...
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‘The fear is not going away’: Christians afraid to return to homes in Jaranwala

Dawn 22 Aug 2023
“We should be shifted somewhere else,” she added ... — Reuters ... Former Punjab governor Salman Taseer and federal minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti were shot dead in 2011 for trying to reform the blasphemy law ... — Reuters ... — Reuters ... .
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Factbox: Who are the Pakistani Islamists vowing 'death to blasphemers'?

Reuters 21 Aug 2023
- 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 reform blasphemy legislation ... Our Standards ... Read Next.
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Experts call for promoting interfaith harmony to avert Jaranwala like incident

Urdu Point 21 Aug 2023
He said the assassination of twice-elected prime minister, Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007, and the killing of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer on January 4, 2011, and other politicians and civil ...
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Pakistani Christians hold Sunday services at desecrated churches

Al Jazeera 20 Aug 2023
“My house is in ashes now ... “My husband had given me some jewellery but that’s nowhere to be found,” she said ... A former provincial governor, Salman Taseer, and a minister for minorities were shot dead for trying to reform the blasphemy law ... .

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