Assassinated Pakistani Governor Buried Under Tight Security
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By RFE/RL
Family members, friends, officials, and supporters have paid their last respects to the governor of Pakistan's Punjab Province, who was assassinated in the federal capital, Islamabad, on January 4.
Salman Taseer was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards who was apparently angered by the governor's opposition to the country's controversial blasphemy law.
His body was flown home overnight to Punjab's seat of government in Lahore for a state funeral, while thousands o...
