Salman Taseer
Salman Taseer | |
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سلمان تاثیر | |
Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) | |
In office 15 May 2008 – 4 January 2011 | |
Preceded by | Lt Gen Khalid Maqbool |
Succeeded by | Sardar Latif Khosa |
Personal details | |
Born | Pakistan Peoples Party | 31 May 1944
Spouse(s) | Yasmeen Sehgal Amna Taseer (?-2011) (till his death) |
Domestic partner | Tavleen Singh[2] |
Children | 7 including Shahbaz and Aatish Taseer |
Parent(s) | M. D. Taseer (father) Bilquis Taseer (mother) |
Relatives | Alys Faiz (maternal aunt) Salima Hashmi (maternal cousin) Muneeza Hashmi (maternal cousin) |
Salman Taseer (
A member of the
Born in
On January 4, 2011, Taseer was assassinated at the
Early life and family
Taseer was born on 31 May 1944, in
His father was Muhammad Din Taseer (M. D. Taseer), who hailed from Ajnala near Amritsar,[22] and was a professor at Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, Amritsar, having obtained his PhD in the United Kingdom. Taseer's mother was Christobel George, a British woman who, upon her wedding, converted to Islam and took the name Bilqis.[21]
Taseer's father died in 1950 at the age of 47, when Taseer was only six years old.[23] Taseer and his two sisters were brought up by their mother in relative poverty, in an environment with strong Christian influences. He had little immersion in Pakistani culture, because his mother didn't stay in contact with her late husband's family.[24]
Taseer attended
Marital and extramarital relationships
Taseer was married twice, and also had two confirmed extra-marital relationships. With his first wife Yasmeen Sehgal, he had one son, Shaan, and two daughters, Sara and Sanam. His second wife, Aamna Taseer, is chairperson of an
Taseer had a brief extramarital relationship with the Indian journalist Tavleen Singh. Taseer met Singh during a book promotion trip to India in March 1980. Their son, Aatish (born 27 November 1980), is a writer and journalist. According to Aatish, the relationship between his parents was an "affair (which) lasted little more than a week."[2] Aatish is a freelance journalist in the UK and has written a book – Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands – about his estranged relationship with his biological father.[26][27]
Political career
Taseer started his political career in his student era as a member of
In the
In December 2010, Taseer was alleged to have left the country for several days without handing over charge to the Punjab Assembly Speaker. This meant that the province was without a constitutional head, and it also rendered the assembly speaker ineligible to preside over sessions. Leaving the province without informing his successor was in violation of the constitution and this led to Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal sending a letter to Prime Minister Gilani calling for the removal of Salmaan Taseer by the President.[29] Evidence provided by ICAO on the governor's travel abroad led to a case being filed in court for breach of the constitution.[30]
Business career
Taseer set up several chartered accountancy and management consultancy firms early in his career.
Taseer founded the
Assassination
In an interview with
On 4 January 2011, one of Taseer's bodyguards,
The next day, just hundreds of people turned up for his funeral in Lahore in spite of denunciations by some Sunni clerics and religious scholars against mourning Taseer.
The assassin Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri was from Punjab, and was part of the security detail provided to Taseer by the Elite Police. After the shooting, Qadri threw his weapon down. He reportedly pleaded to be arrested.[41] After the murder, more than 500 clerics voiced support for the murder and urged a general boycott of Taseer's funeral as he supported a blasphemer.[42] Supporters of Mumtaz Qadri blocked police attempting to bring him to the Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi, and some supporters showered him with rose petals.[43] On 1 October 2011, Qadri was sentenced to death by a Pakistani Anti Terrorist court at Islamabad for murdering Taseer. Qadri was executed on 29 February 2016.[44][45]
References
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- ^ a b A Correspondent Date: 6 January 2011 Place: Mumbai (6 January 2011). "A son in search of his father". Mid-day.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016.
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Although born in colonial Simla to prominent Anglo-Indian parents (a Kashmiri father and a British mother), Salmaan Taseer never rolled in millions until he made them himself.
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- ^ Aleem Maqbool and Orla Guerin, "Salman Taseer: Thousands mourn Pakistan governor" Archived 8 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine: "One small religious party, the Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan, warned that anyone who expressed grief over the assassination could suffer the same fate. 'No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salman Taseer or even express any kind of regret or sympathy over the incident,' the party said in a statement. It said anyone who expressed sympathy over the death of a blasphemer was also committing blasphemy." BBC News South Asia, 5 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
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