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5 January 2011

“Why do they pick on us Pakistanis?”

A brilliant and brave answer from one of the country’s leading academics.

By Mehdi Hasan

The news of the death of Salman Taseer, the secular Muslim governor of Punjab Province, came as a profound shock. Not because of the killing itself, as such acts of murder and violence have tragically and depressingly become part of daily life in the self-proclaimed “Islamic Republic” of Pakistan, but because he was slain by one of his own bodyguards.

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