Pakistan on alert following killing of Salman Taseer

The World

Pakistan’s Punjab governor Salman Taseer was shot dead yesterday by one of his bodyguards, who shot him 30 times. The governor was a businessman and a publisher of a liberal English-language daily. Recently, he was working to repeal Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which lead to fiery demonstrations by religious parties. BBC reporter, Aleem Maqbool is in Lahore, Pakistan, where Taseer’s funeral is taking place.

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