{"id":1778,"date":"2011-10-01T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2011-10-01T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:59:32","slug":"qadri-gets-death-sentence-in-salman-taseers-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/10\/01\/1778\/","title":{"rendered":"Qadri gets death sentence in Salman Taseer\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/mumtaz.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on Saturday, DawnNews reported.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Mr Taseer was assassinated by his security guard and personnel of Punjab Elite Force, Mumtaz Qadri, on January 4, 2011 at Kohsar Market in Islamabad.<br \/> \u201cThe court has awarded my client with death. The court announced the death sentence for him,\u201d Shujaur Rehman, one of Qadri\u2019s lawyers, told AFP by telephone.<br \/>Judge Pervez Ali Shah announced the verdict at the court behind closed doors in the high-security Adiyala prison in Rawalpindi, the lawyer said.<br \/>Qadri had earlier confessed in court that he had killed Punjab governor Salman Taseer for his \u2018blasphemous\u2019 statements.<br \/>Qadri\u2019s supporters took to the streets to denounce the sentence soon after it was handed down.<br \/> \u201cBy punishing one Mumtaz Qadri, you will produce a thousand Mumtaz Qadris!\u201d one man shouted through a megaphone outside the jail.<br \/>The court handed down two death sentences for murder and terrorism to Qadri, who has seven days to file an appeal, state television reported.<br \/>Reporters and other members of the public were not allowed in to the hearing and it was not known if Qadri attended.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: DAWN<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on Saturday, DawnNews reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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