Despite threats from a section of clerics that anyone who grieved for slain Punjab Governor Salman Taseer would meet a similar fate, people crowded his gubernatorial residence in Lahore on Wednesday to pay their last respects before his body was buried with full state honours.
In fact, there...
The influential governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad. Mr Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People's Party, was shot when getting into his car at a market.
Interior Minister...
Salman Rushdie faces renewed death threat
Thursday, 20 January , 2005, 20:27
London: Author Salman Rushdie faces a renewed death threat from Islamic fundamentalists as Iran's supreme leader Ayotollah Ali Khamenie affirmed a 'fatwa' against him in a message to Muslims on their annual...
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