Zardari praises Taseer sacrifice, consoles family

Governor Punjab embraced martyrdom defending minorities

KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Shaheed Salman Taseer wrote with his blood a new chapter in the history of PPP’s continuing struggle for human rights, democracy and no-discrimination. He said this while talking to Mrs Salman Taseer on the eve of the soyem of the late Governor who was gunned down by his own security guard in Islamabad.

The President said that Shaheed Salman Taseer was an undaunted political leader and a true follower of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in treading their path to martyrdom.
He called a spade a spade and did not mince words in expressing what he believed to be true and right, the President said of Salman Taseer.

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