The Washington Post reports that Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, was assassinated today by one of his own security guards who was angered by Taseer's support for a pardon for Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman recently sentenced to death for blasphemy. (See prior posting.) Taseer, a close advisor to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zadari, was killed by rifle fire at a shopping plaza near his home in Islamabad. Taseer had been a strong critic of religious extremists. The shooter surrendered to police after the killing.
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