Mumtaz Qadri who killed Salman Taseer gets death sentence today

Mumtaz Qadri who killed Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province of Pakistan, gets death sentence today.

According to details, an Anti Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi on Saturday found Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, a police commando, guilty of murder 0f the former governor who had urged reform in blasphemy law, and sentenced him to death.

Qadri, one of Taseer's bodyguards, was charged with terrorism and murdering the governor he was supposed to be protecting on an Islamabad street on January 4, 2011.



Qadri confessed to killing Taseer, saying he objected to the politician's calls to amend the blasphemy law, which mandates the death penalty for those convicted of defaming the Prophet Muhammad (SAWW).

Mumtaz Qadri has the right to appeal against the verdict in the high court within seven days.