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Mumtaz Qadri

1985–2016

Nationality
Pakistan
Occupation
police officer

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

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Central Jail Rawalpindi
    Dates unknown

Biography

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (1985 – 29 February 2016), better known as Mumtaz Qadri (, Urdu: ممتاز قادری), was a Pakistani Elite Police commando who is known for murdering Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab. Qadri was a commando of the Elite Police and, at the time of the assassination, a member of the squad of personal bodyguards assigned to protect Taseer. A follower of the Barelvi version of Sunni Islam, he assassinated Taseer on 4 January 2011. He claimed to have killed the Governor because Taseer spoke in defense of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Qadri was convicted by the Islamabad High Court, sentenced to death and hanged in February 2016.

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