Pakistan’s jihad against reason
16 Jan 2011, 11:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed
‘Covered in the righteous cloak of religion… even a puny dwarf imagines himself a monster. Important to face. And call their bluff.’
The man who tweeted the above sentence was shot in the head from behind by his own body guard.
Two other armed guards, who knew of the impending murder, violated standard operating procedure and stayed quiet, their guns hanging limply by their sides while the assassin shot 27 times at the now lifeless, punctured body of Salman Taseer, the governor of the Punjab province of Pakistan.
The governor was given a state funeral, but the reactions from sections of the Pakistani society were more than jubilant.
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