The main road between Rawalpindi and the capital Islamabad was blocked by protesters within hours of the hanging. Police later dispersed the demonstrators and closed off the road to prevent more protests. Some lawyers showered Qadri with rose petals when he first arrived in court days after the killing. The judge who first convicted him was forced to flee the country after death threats. Qadri, who had trained as an elite police commando and was assigned to Taseer as his bodyguard, shot the politician at an Islamabad market in January He was sentenced to death later that year.
He claimed it was his religious duty to kill the minister, who was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws and supported liberal reforms. Mumtaz Qadri's hanging has come as a surprise to many who thought such a move could spark a severe backlash from the religious lobby. The hanging comes amid two recent developments that have already incensed religious groups. In January, the Punjab government banned preaching in educational institutions by Tablighi Jamaat, a proselytising and revivalist movement.
And earlier this month it enacted a law that provides for a helpline for women to report abuses by their husbands and others. Amid this atmosphere, the move to hang Qadri indicates a growing confidence of the government in taming the street power of religious groups, which the military has long been accused of using to control politicians at home and fight its proxy wars abroad.
One reason may be the fact that most hard-line groups adhere to the Deobandi school and would be loath to lionise Qadri, an adherent of the rival Barelvi sect. But a more important reason seems to be the military's new-found willingness to curb militant groups that have a domestic agenda.
A day after Elite Force policeman Mumtaz Qadri gunned down the outspoken Governor on January 4 for criticising the controversial blasphemy law, the website mumtazq A Pakistani assassin's long reach. The assassination last week of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail of gunfire. But it was Pakistan's reaction to the killing of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer -- starting with the rose petals showered on th That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him.
Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad More News ». Pak court gives death sentence to Salmaan Taseer's assassin. Blame the government for choosing to invest in motorways and metro rather than basic education for its people.
There should also be a strict enforceable guideline for sermons across the nation. Nazeer Khan if they can not understand the simple concept that killing a innocent person is akin to killing humanity then they are illiterate.
M Rafique. Nazeer Khan : Sir where is Ali shah. I condemn what Qadri did, but i do demand from the government to make a legislation to bring blasphemers into justice so that the public don'n take law into their hands. This is the way forward, if not adopted, I don't know what we will in see in the future and such incident will continue to happen, polarising Pakistan and beginning a discussion who is right and wrong. If yes then you know nothing about Islam.
Well, people cannot distinguish. Matter of time! Illiteracy at its peak, Illiterate people,. Ali shah you are deluded. His grave has become a business center. Lot of potential for lot of opportunist people. God bless our people otherwise no hope.
Nazeer Khan I totally agree with you but who were they??? Common people like you and me they believed whatever was told to them. Who are we?? His followers or the followers of our mind,our understanding and slaves of our own our egos our wrath.
That's why we muslim nations day by day going down because we never tried to learn our religion by ourself we only learned whatever was taught and told to us!!! I think this is enough to make you understand!!
Nazeer Khan that is the most disturbing part that you claim these people are educated. Rock Sir, well said. A dead society needs a novel rebirth, how?
Answer lies within each of us. Bilal Shahid. This is the harsh reality and bitter truth of our Country. Its not only the uneducated society that matters because I have even come across literate people supporting this barbaric act. I think we really need to change our perception about Islam and in general our behavior by taking following measures; 1. Taking out extremism from educational syllabus.
Register all Madrisas and Religious schools. Audit all educational institutes on regular basis to stop preaching of extremism. Asif Jamil. Nazeer Khan Fari is absolutely right. I feel very sorry for your lack of understanding of Islam.
Nazeer Khan Better believe it. I think the Minister of Interior has been asleep all this while. Such incompetence! Why he has been given so much respect? What a pity and in pathetic situation pakistan is and the whole muslim world Muhammad Ali Farooq. I wonder what steps should be taken to put the society back on a normal path. If steps were taken to push the society into darkness then there should be steps to bring it out of ignorance.
Every1 of us is somehow right at some point of time. No I donot believe that literacy has something 2 do with all this. Ali Rehman. Heights of Illiteracy, what a shame. Kashif Qadri : I have a very simple question brother. If I do not believe you or support you, then should I be allowed to harm you? Can you give me this right? Nazeer Khan - They were 'literate' to the extent what the madrassa mullah taught them.
That must amount to a lot of knowledge then!!! Zubaida Khan. Ali shah laws are never made under duress. Tomorrow you will saw that unless there are laws against singers the people will take action by themselves. Well there are laws against people who kill people and that law worked and theis Qadri was punished. Government should demolish this by force and let no one come close to the site. Ali Shah - There was nothing 'blasphemous' that Salmaan Taseer said. Blasphemy is a very misused word and God is not bothered with it.
A Khan. Shame for celebrating the killer. Asif A Shah. In Pakistan, there is an acute shortage of people who think rationally and decide issues based on rational thinking. Mumtaz Qadri had a solemn duty to protect the late Governor Salman Taseer.
What does he do, he becomes the killer of the person whom he is supposed to protect. By what logic, he becomes a hero. I am glad that the Supreme Court of Pakistan saw him for what he was.
Who allowed them to do this? Where is the gov and law? To what low level we have stooped to.
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