Pakistan’s Punjab governor Salman Taseer was shot dead yesterday by one of his bodyguards, who shot him 30 times. BBC reporter, Aleem Maqbool is in Lahore, Pakistan, where Taseer’s funeral is taking place.
More than 50,000 demonstrators rallied yesterday against changing Pakistan’s blasphemy law. The law has support across a spectrum of Pakistanis. Madiha Tahir reports on how the case, and the controversy, has exposed new fault lines among Pakistanis.
