by MUNAWER AZEEM & SYED IRFAN RAZA
Salman Taseer’s assassin Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri. PHOTO/AP/CBS News
ISLAMABAD: Salman Taseer, the flamboyant and high-profile Governor of Punjab, was gunned down here on Tuesday by one of his security guards.
The guard, Mumtaz Qadri of the Punjab Elite Force, yelled out ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ and emptied two magazines of an SMG on the governor in the Kohsar Market before surrendering himself.
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik was the first official to confirm that the governor’s death was the work of his own security guard, who had confessed that he had been ‘instigated’ by Mr Taseer recently dubbing the blasphemy law as a black law.
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The body was later taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for an autopsy, which concluded that the governor had been hit by 40 bullets — 26 were lodged in the body and 14 had exited.
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(Thanks to Mansoor Gowani)