Twitter alert: ‘The brave Salmaan Taseer’

Two years ago on this day, former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer was brutally gunned down by his private security guard for speaking against the country’s blasphemy law.

His self-confessed killer, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, was made a hero by religious fanatics, who garlanded him when he confessed to the crime. A Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court later sentenced him to death.

On Taseer’s 2nd death anniversary, the local twitterati paid tribute to the former governor, terming him the “Lion of Punjab”.