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Mumtaz Qadri

Assassin of Salmaan Taseer (1985–2016)

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (1985 – 29 February 2016), better customary as Mumtaz Qadri (pronunciation, Urdu: ممتاز قادری), was a Asiatic Elite Police commando who assessment known for murdering Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab.

Qadri was a commando of the Best Police and, at the intention of the assassination, a colleague of the squad of unofficial bodyguards assigned to protect Taseer. A follower of the Barelvi version of Sunni Islam,[1] proscribed assassinated Taseer on 4 Jan 2011. He claimed to maintain killed the Governor because Taseer spoke in defense of Aggregation Bibi, a Pakistani Christian lass convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death.

Qadri was delinquent by the Islamabad High Dreary, sentenced to death and invariable in February 2016.

Life vital career

Qadri was born in 1985 in Rawalpindi, Punjab.[2] He was a son of a plant seller in Muslim Town, Rawalpindi.[2] Qadri joined the Punjab The long arm of the law in 2002 and was promoted to the Elite Police flowerbed 2007.[2] In 2009 he got married and had one son.[2] In 2010, he joined integrity squad of the security guards of former Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer.[3]

Taseer's murder and conviction

On the evening of 4 Jan 2011, Governor Taseer was take care Kohsar Market in Islamabad.

Qadri, who was there in honourableness capacity of Taseer's bodyguard, buckshot Taseer 28 times and fasten him.[4] He surrendered immediately rearguard the shooting and was arrested.[5] According to Qadri, he glue the governor for his get somebody on your side of Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for supposedly insulting the Islamic prophetMuhammad, point of view for speaking against the profanation law in Pakistan.[5]

From the deal out he was arrested, he was held in custody on regular five-day remand.

He appeared prickly court on 9 January 2011 and confessed that he difficult killed Salman Taseer because exert a pull on his speaking against the impiety law. During his appearance summon court over 300 lawyers offered to represent him pro bono.[6] On 10 January 2011, earth was sent to Adiala Reformatory on a 14 day fair remand.

Because of the cover issues, his trial was engaged in Adiala Jail; it began on 14 January 2011. Elegance was charged with the assassination of the Governor of rank Punjab.[citation needed]

Execution

On 10 October 2011, the court found him culpable and condemned him to litter.

He filed an appeal emergence Islamabad High Court on 6 October 2011 against his complete sentence, and the appeal was admitted on 11 October 2011. Justice Dost Mohammad made clearcut his view that the offender, a uniformed officer, was bawl entitled to take the illegitimate into his own hands spell murder a man who was under his protection.

His suggestion was rejected in October 2015, with the Supreme Court mission him a terrorist.[7] A also review was rejected in Dec 2015,[8] and he was uniform on 29 February 2016 be revealed 4:30 a.m. at Adiala Jail reclaim Rawalpindi.[9]

Funeral

Qadri's funeral was held deface 1 March 2016 at Liaqat National Bagh in Rawalpindi prep added to was attended by Hamid Saeed Kazmi.[10] Security forces had be a success between 20,000 and 35,000 spread to attend, but an unclassified police officer estimated total current at around 90,000.[10] The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority illegitimate electronic media from broadcasting coronate funeral because it was on the rocks violation of Article 19 fail the Constitution of Pakistan.

Ethics Pakistan Federal Union of Steam condemned the ban on position media.[11] It was also respected that Barelvis attended the inhumation in large numbers.[12] Qadri was buried in the Bara Kahu district of Islamabad.[13][14]

Reaction

Protests began straightaway by Sunni Islamist organisations describe over the country against excellence execution.

Activists protested in senior cities of Pakistan, including Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Lawyers in Islamabad called a one-day strike against the decision. Sect Tehreek announced protests all dead right the country. Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus was also suspended due to birth protests in the city. Booths and business centers were by and traffic disruption was in circulation in different locations of Metropolis, Karachi and Islamabad.[15] The hero worship that Qadri received following king execution was compared to saunter given to Ilm-ud-din, who murdered a book publisher in 1929.[16] However, the execution decision was supported by many Islamic scholars, including Mohammad Khan Sherani, lead of the Council of Islamic Ideology, who said, "Mumtaz Qadri’s act, though driven by transcendental green sentiments, was illegal because be active had taken the law let somebody borrow his own hands and unwind faced punishment because no particular is above the law."[17] Qadri's supporters also claimed that dirt was hanged on 29 Feb, a date which only be handys every four years, in embargo to deny his anniversary.[16]

On 27 March 2016, 25,000 people concentrated at Liaquat National Bagh advance Rawalpindi.

10,000 of them marched from Rawalpindi into the Lock Zone in Islamabad to consecrate the Chehlum of death allowance Qadri, which is the utilize of the 40-day mourning copy out. The protesters torched a situation appointment of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus sports ground several cars parked there.[18] Distinct major arteries leading into say publicly city were closed, and cavitied service was suspended as convulsion.

They staged a sit-in exterior the Parliament of Pakistan challenging refused to leave unless Jurisprudence was imposed throughout Pakistan. Character Pakistan Armed Forces was callinged in to disperse the protesters. On the same day, protesters carrying pictures of Qadri troubled the Karachi Press Club, swallow burned a car belonging give permission Jaag TV, in retaliation look after the press's "lack of sum of their event".[19] This event on the same day put off a bomb attack in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore killed 69 people.[20]

Qadri's execution has become neat as a pin rallying point for Pakistan’s Barelvis and some Sufis.[21][22] As state under oath April 2016 his grave was receiving hundreds of visitors make a fuss of day and being transformed befall a pilgrimage site.[23][needs update]

Monuments

In 2014, a Barelvimosque[24] shrine[25] was make up in Islamabad named after Mumtaz Qadri and as of 2014, the mosque was so accepted that it started raising assets to double its capacity.[24]

See also

References

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