Rally as Pak court hears assassin case
Supporters of a Pakistani police commando charged with murdering a high-profile liberal governor held a rally yesterday as the court resumed taking statements in the case.
At a previous hearing Malik Mumtaz Qadri was charged with terrorism and the January 4 murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer.
The killing of the reformist Taseer was the most high-profile political assassination in Pakistan since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto died in a gun and suicide attack in December 2007.
More than 250 demonstrators rallied outside the Adiyala prison, where the hearing took place.
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