SITUATION OUT OF CONTROL! Pakistan on alert as governor’s assassin is hanged
Security was stepped up at flashpoints all over the united states such as the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where hundreds of supporters started assembling at the family house of Qadri. Riot police were deployed as officials braced for demonstrations from hardliners in the nearby capital Islamabad.
A former police bodyguard, Qadri, shot on liberal Punjab governor Salman Taseer 28 times within an upscale marketplace in Islamabad.
He later confessed the killing, saying he objected to reform controversial blasphemy laws.
Blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue in Pakistan, an Islamic republic of some 200 million, and many conservatives ready to drown out any calls to dampen the laws have hailed as a hero Qadri.
His body had been shown to numerous assistants at his family’s house in town, where police and paramilitary ranger forces in riot gear along with ambulances and dozens of police vehicles were stationed, an AFP reporter there said.
Armed rangers may be viewed on the roofing of the building home Qadri’s home, while some roads were blocked by authorities in the neighbourhood.
Shouts were heard from within the home as countless women and men assembled, and mosques may be heard broadcasting news of the execution.
“I ‘ve no sorrows,” Qadri’s brother Malik Abid told AFP, tears rolling down his cheeks, while girls chanted poetry nearby.
He explained officials who said Qadri was unwell had called to the penitentiary Sunday the family.
Nevertheless, once they arrived, he greeted them with all the news that his execution was at hand, and that they had been deceived by authorities.
“We began shouting, however he embraced us and chanted ‘God is great,'” Abid said.
“We’ve beefed up security in Rawalpindi to keep law and order and also to cope with any untoward circumstances,” Gondal said.
Islamabad police spokesman Zia ul Qamar told around the capital was stiffened.
“Islamabad authorities are on high alert to handle any circumstances in the aftermath of the hanging,” he said.
“Riot police have been deployed in all sensitive areas as well as the Red Zone.”
In the port mega-city of Karachi, protesters blocked after Qadri assistants ordered them close primary junctions and a few petrol stations were closed.
A Yet on Twitter some folks were hailing the execution, calling it “justice served”.
“A departure should not be cause for just about any party but it is extremely hard to feel any empathy with this guy or his vile supporters.
Critics of the legislation including European governments say Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are mostly abused, with numerous men and women languishing in jails under bogus charges.
Taseer had also been outspoken in his support of Asia Bibi, after being found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, a Christian girl that continues to be on death row since 2010.
A year ago, Qadri lost a request for the Supreme Court to examine his sentence.
The determination to uphold the sentence of the court started rallies where Islamist groups said when Qadri were executed those responsible should even be put to death.
