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.
“Why do they pick on us Pakistanis?”
A brilliant and brave answer from one of the country’s leading academics.