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LAHORE - Arts and culture being the least significant arena of interest for many politicians, Salman Taseer differed greatly. He took up a sustained effort to promote artists, especially from the youth, and encouraged women and young girls to step forward in their fields.
Last week, Taseer had showed his support for literature when he hosted a tea for an Indian writer and mystic, Muzaffar Ali. Even in the book launch, Taseer said that Islam was a religion of peace and tolerance,

LAHORE - The 26th Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, who belonged to a respectable and intellectual family, started his political career from platform of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). He was the close aide of former PM Benazir Bhutto and close relative of renowned revolutionary poet and journalist Faiz Ahmed Faiz and politician Mian Yousaf Salahuddin. He was the son of Muhammad Din Taseer, popularly known as MD Taseer, who is the first PhD degree holder in the Indian

LAHORE - Supporters of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) took to streets in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and other cities, burning tyres and blocking traffic in protest after the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, private TV channels reported on Tuesday.
The protests broke out in the provincial capital of Punjab and the home town of the late Taseer, who was assassinated in Islamabad in an attack officials said was carried out by one of his bodyguards. The protesters

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - Mumtaz Qadri who assassinated Punjab governor confessed that he killed Salmaan Taseer because he (the governor) committed what he said 'blasphemy' towards Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
A private Samaa television channel reported that the killer confessed his offence, saying Taseer was gustakh-e-rasool (disrespectful towards prophethood) and death was the ultimate punishment for the sacrilege.
Talking to

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif's turn for becoming prime minister will come in 2023, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer said on Sunday.
He was talking to journalists at the Lahore Polo Club. Taseer said that Nawaz should show patience and wait for his turn until 2023 and predicted that the PML-N chief would not destabilise the federal government. He defended the federal government's decision to increase fuel prices saying that it was necessary due to

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer on Friday said that Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will not only complete its existing tenure but will also successfully regain power till 2023, by winning general elections of 2013 and 2018 on the basis of serving people.
He was talking to the media at the cheques distribution ceremony of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) at the governor's house. He distributed cheques of Rs 100,000 each to 140 selected women.
While lauding the

LAHORE - The Pakistani flag denotes white colour for minorities and Islam also orders respect for their rights, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer said this while addressing the Christian community.
Islam does not promote violence towards minorities rather it advocates the human rights, he said adding, that is why, he tried to help Asiya Bibi, after which he was made the subject of various fatwas.
He said those who were putting out fatwas were the same people who did the same

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's tweets have been making headlines for the papers but his latest status update on the social networking site has shocked the people who follow him on the twitter. His tweet was "CJP Iftikhar Chaudhary has expressed his pleasure at the PM honouring him by sacking both ministers ...... Mogambo khush hae". After the governor's hide-and-seek games of last week, it seems he is now more interested towards social networking sites.
Yesterday he

LAHORE: Governor Salmaan Taseer attended Benazir Bhutto's photo exhibition on Tuesday quashing media reports about his secret departure to Dubai along with his family. A private TV channel reported that Taseer had once again gone abroad without informing any government department and giving charge to the Punjab Assembly speaker. After the reports started raising speculations, journalists contacted the Governor's House whose spokesman said that he was also unable to trace Taseer.