On January 4, 2011, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated in broad daylight by one of his own elite police guards –an act that laid bare a “vein of deep-rooted extremism” running through Pakistan’s society. The killer, Mumtaz Qadri, emptied two magazines into the outspoken governor, later calmly confessing that he did it because Taseer […]
Fifteen Years
Remembering Salmaan Taseer: Fifteen Years On
January 4 marks 15 years since my father, Salmaan Taseer, was taken from us — not only from his family, but from a nation still grappling with the questions he dared to ask and the values he refused to abandon. Time has a way of softening grief, but it does not dilute memory. For those […]