Salman Taseer

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Salman Taseer (Urdu: سلمان تاثیر; (1944-05-31)31 May 1944 – 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 34th Governor of Punjab from May 2008 until his assassination in January 2011. A member of the Pakistan Peoples Party since the 1980s, he was elected to the Punjab Assembly from Lahore in the 1988 election, however he lost in the 1990, 1993 and 1997 elections. Taseer served as a minister in the caretaker cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro under Pervez Musharraf during the 2008 elections. He was appointed as the governor of Punjab on 15 May 2008, by then-President Musharraf at the request of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. During his governorship, he emerged as an outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws and consequently called for the pardon for a blasphemy accused Asia Bibi. Born in Shimla in British India, Taseer studied at the St. Anthony's School and the Government College University, Lahore before moving to London where he...

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