Without a proper party organization, structure and grassroots mobilization, how did the TLP manage to perform better than the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), another religious political party, formed decades ago?
Source/Credit: Rising Kashmir
By Dr. D. Suba Chandran | October 30, 2017
Mumtaz Qadri is dead. But is he?
A year before, in February 2016, Mumtaz Qadri was executed for assassinating Salman Taseer, the then Governor of Punjab in 2011. Mumtaz Qadri was neither a criminal nor a terrorist when he carried out the assassination; he was a part of an elite police squad meant to protect the Governor. And why did he assassinate Taseer? The latter stood up and supported a hapless woman convicted on blasphemy charges. Taseer was one of those few inside Pakistan to raise a strong voice against the blasphemy law and its widespread abuse.
If Taseer was trying to galvanize a sensible movement for positive change and social harmony, Mumtaz Qadri represented the opposite. It is an irony, he was chosen to be one of Taseer’s bodyguards. Whether Taseer knew about Qadri’s political and radical leanings or not, he paid a heavy price. 28 bullets were pumped into Taseer’s body in a popular market in the heart of Islamabad.
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