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A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday convicted and sentenced to death a police guard who assassinated outspoken Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in January for calling for changes in the country’s controversial blasphemy law.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the policeman who gunned down Taseer outside a restaurant in the heart of Islamabad on January 4, was awarded two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism by Judge Parvez Ali Shah during in-camera proceedings at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Qadri — whose counsel confirmed he had been found guilty and given the death sentence by the court — has seven days to file an appeal, State-run PTV reported.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the policeman who gunned down Taseer outside a restaurant in the heart of Islamabad on January 4, was awarded two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism by Judge Parvez Ali Shah during in-camera proceedings at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Qadri — whose counsel confirmed he had been found guilty and given the death sentence by the court — has seven days to file an appeal, State-run PTV reported.
