Malik mumtaz hussain qadri janaza prayer

A funeral prayers in absentia of Shaheed-e-Risalat, Ghazi Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, has been offered and attended by a large number of nationals and JI workers.!

Janazah Ghazi Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri Shaheed Friday Prayers Offered At Lal Masjid Again.

Thousands of Pakistanis have turned out for the funeral of a former bodyguard executed for killing Punjab's governor over his opposition to blasphemy laws.

A funeral prayers in absentia of Shaheed-e-Risalat, Ghazi Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, has been offered and attended by a large number of nationals and JI workers.

Mumtaz Qadri, a member of the Barelvi group Dawat-e-Islami, assassinated Salman Taseer because he thought the governor blasphemed the Prophet Muhammad.

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi witnessed a historic gathering of people at the Namaz-e-Janaza of Mumtaz Qadri, who was hanged in the case of killing.

Mumtaz Qadri

Assassin of Salmaan Taseer (1985–2016)

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (1985 – 29 February 2016), better known as Mumtaz Qadri (pronunciation^ⓘ, Urdu: ممتاز قادری), was a Pakistani Elite Police commando who is known for murdering Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab.

Qadri was a commando of the Elite Police and, at the time of the assassination, a member of the squad of personal bodyguards assigned to protect Taseer. A follower of the Barelvi version of Sunni Islam,^[1] he assassinated Taseer on 4 January 2011.

He claimed to have killed the Governor because Taseer spoke in defense of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Qadri was convicted by the Islamabad High Court, sentenced to death and hanged in February 2016.

Life and career

Qadri was born in 1985 in Rawalpindi, Punjab.^[2] He was a son of a vegetable seller in Muslim Town, Rawalpindi.^[2] Qadri joined the Punjab Police in 2002 and