It isn’t hard to find the home of Pakistan’s most famous killer. At every corner in this maze of tightly packed streets, mere miles from the army’s headquarters, taxi drivers and street vendors readily gesture toward the birthplace of Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who, nine months ago, pumped 27 bullets into Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of Punjab. Taseer had opposed the country’s blasphemy laws, which were, in turn, championed by religious conservatives like Qadri. Along the way, banners hanging from electricity pylons hail the “bravery” and “greatness” of the assassin many in Pakistan chillingly regard as a “hero of Islam.” Nowhere is this status plainer than outside the crowded,…
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