Several Sunni organisations have held ceremonies in cities across Pakistan to honour Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the policeman who assassinated Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer two years ago.
The Sunni groups observed on Tuesday as “Mumtaz Qadri Day” and lauded the policeman for his “valiant act” of killing Taseer in January 2011 for allegedly committing blasphemy.
Under the banner of the Sunni Tehrik and Idara-e-Saratum Mustaqeem, a large number of people, mostly clerics and madrassa students, joined rallies in lahore, Gujrat, Pakpattan, Faisalabad, Gujrawala, Karachi, Quetta, larkana and Muzaffarabad and expressed solidarity with Qadri, who has been sentenced to death for the assassination.