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The judge who sentenced to death the killer of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer on Tuesday failed to show up at work and may...

Activists of Sunni Tehreek (ST) on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against the court decision of awarding death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri,...

Activists of Sunni Tehrik protested on Sunday against the court’s verdict against Mumtaz Qadri who had confessed to the killing of former Punjab Governor...

The protests on the death sentence of Mumtaz Qadri continued on the second day on Sunday although the number of protestors fell significantly compared...

Hundreds of activists of Sunni Tehreek on Saturday went on a rampage in Rawalpindi and Lahore following the announcement of the death penalty for...

The Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday awarded the death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the self-confessed murderer of former Punjab governor Salmaan...

Flouting the ban on all sorts of rallies on the Mall, religious parties staged protests throughout Saturday against the death sentence awarded to former...

Scores of activists and workers of Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Pakistan Islamabad and Islamic Students Federation on Saturday blocked the main IJ Principal Road for an hour at...

Outrage on Qadri death sentence threw the traffic out of gear causing worst bottleneck on the Mall road and various linking arteries. Though the...

Mumtaz Qadri has been given death sentence for murdering Governor Punjab Salman Taseer. Qadri said that he killed Taseer because he (Salman Taseer) made blasphemous...

The Sunni Tehreek (ST) on Friday staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club demanding release of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer’s killer Mumtaz...

Tahafz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz (TNRM) on Friday staged a protest outside Data Darbar against alleged mistreatment of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab governor Salman...

ISLAMABAD - An anti-terrorism court was told on Saturday that Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the police commando charged with killing of former governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer, insisted for being deputed as one of his bodyguards, The hearing was held in the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi during which the court recorded the statements of three witnesses. The moharrar, the officials assigning duties, of Elite Force Punjab Umer Farooq told the court that he deputed Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on the

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Police on Friday approached Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of late Salmaan Taseer, to grill him over the murder of Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti. With the special permission of anti-terrorism court's judge Rana Nasir Ahmed, the police team probing into the killing of Bhatti visited the Adiala Jail where they interrogated Qadri for hours. However, no significant development was reported, a source said. The police sources said Qadri told

LAHORE - The charge sheet against former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin Mumtaz Qadri is a negation of Pakistan's creation, Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz (TNRM) President Raza-e-Mustafa said on Monday.
He was addressing a rally outside the Lahore Press Club. Mustafa said that people, who are giving a "royal protocol" to US national Raymond Davis, should think about their attitude towards Qadri. TNRM secretary Ali Naqshbandi said that if Taseer's assassin had done

RAWALPINDI - An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), hearing the Salmaan Taseer assassination case, on Monday indicted self-confessed assassin Mumtaz Qadri on charges of terrorism and murder. ATC Judge Raja Ikhlaq Ahmad read out the charges to Qadri during an in-camera hearing of the case at the local Adiala Jail.
Talking to reporters after the hearing, Qadri's lawyer Shuja Rehman said in his statement after indictment, his client confessed to killing Taseer, but pleaded not guilty as

RAWALPINDI - A court on Tuesday deferred the indictment of Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the police commando who confessed to killing Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Qadri said he shot dead Punjab governor Salman Taseer outside a cafe after lunch in Islamabad on January 4 because he objected to Taseer's calls to reform the blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty.
Raja Shuja Rehman, one of Qadri's lawyers, said that the indictment could not take