The funeral of Pakistani Gov. Salman Taseer, apparently because of his outspoken opposition to his country's anti-blasphemy laws, came off today without any of the violence by his opponents that had been feared.
Pakistan's that "thousands of Pakistanis braved high security to attend Taseer’s funeral [in Lahore], following the country’s most high-profile assassination in three years."
DAWN also writes that the guard who witnesses said shot the Punjab governor , and that "hundreds of Facebook users [have] of liberal Pakistani politician Salman Taseer as a strike against reformers of the country’s tight blasphemy laws."
The that "more than 500 Muslim scholars are praising the man suspected of killing a Pakistani governor because the politician opposed blasphemy laws that mandate death for those convicted of insulting Islam."
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