Pakistani governor assassinated
The influential governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad. Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People’s Party, was shot when getting into his car at a market. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the BBC’s Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad.
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