Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Buried in the governor of Punjab Lahore between samples of pain

The governor of the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab, Salman Tasir murdered for his outspoken opposition to Islamic fundamentalism, was buried today in a ceremony attended by the staff of its formation, the ruling Popular Party (PPP), and hundreds militants. A crowd rushed PPP flags outside the governor's residence in the city of Lahore, capital of Punjab, "to bid farewell to Tasir, in images broadcast live on Pakistani television.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, the foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and the interior minister, Rehman Malik, all of the PPP, have been confused with little protection from the crowd, waiting for the corpse arrived by helicopter to a nearby cemetery. In the grounds, which had access only relatives and party leadership, the coffin has been buried amid the tears of the family.

A police source in Lahore has said that the authorities have been tightened security measures for the state funeral and some markets in the city have closed their doors. "Everything is under control", has argued the source. Tasir was killed yesterday in a market in Islamabad by a bodyguard, motivated, according to the Ministry of Interior, the governor's opposition to anti-blasphemy laws in Pakistan and its support for the Christian sentenced to death on them, Asia Bibi.

Fundamentalist clerics had issued threats against Tasir and some of the groups who were demonstrating in favor of the blasphemy laws calling for his head. Next president, Asif Ali Zardari, and the family of his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, assassinated two years ago, Tasir was especially critical of the religious stratum in a country where even the leaders of the secular PPP practice caution with the Islamic clergy .

Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 11:33 AM

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