Information About Incident 48047-93192-234567 in Khushab Pakistan

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Separately, the ATC deferred the indictment of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, after his lawyer asked for the statements of five other members of Elite Force providing security to the Punjab Governor on January 4. Special Judge ATC-II was to formally charge Qadri with the murder of Governor Taseer but put off indictment till February 4. Meanwhile, the investigators told the court that they did not need the custody of two prayer leaders, Qari Hanif Qureshi and Syed Imtiaz Hussain Kazmi, whose speeches, according to the statement of Qadri, inspired him to kill the Governor.

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• Meta Location: Punjab Punjab
• Matched District: Khushab
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: him
• Subject: the Governor

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Separately, the ATC deferred the indictment of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, after his lawyer asked for the statements of five other members of Elite Force providing security to the Punjab Governor on January 4. Special Judge ATC-II was to formally charge Qadri with the murder of Governor Taseer but put off indictment till February 4. Meanwhile, the investigators told the court that they did not need the custody of two prayer leaders, Qari Hanif Qureshi and Syed Imtiaz Hussain Kazmi, whose speeches, according to the statement of Qadri, inspired him to kill the Governor. Kohsar Police told the court that presently the investigators had no evidence about the alleged role of Qureshi and Hussain Kazmi in instigating the killing. The two prayer leaders had maintained that there was no evidence that their actions abetted the killing of Salman Taseer. They denied that they knew Qadri before he killed the Governor.

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