Qadri charged with Taseer murder

RAWALPINDI: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi on Monday charged Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri in Governor Salman Taseer assassinates case.

Qadri had admitted to murder Taseer, entity to his calls to improvement the blasphemy law, which judgment to death those send down of defame the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

One of Qadri's lawyers, Malik Mohammad Rafiq Khan, told after an anti-terrorism court session held at the back closed doors: The judge looks at the record and said that it seems that the lay blame on committed murder and terrorism.

"The judge read out the charges to the lay blame on. The accused appeal not guilty,"

The next hearing will be held on February 26, when witnesses and evidence will be presented, the lawyer added.

Taseer's killing was the most high-profile political assassination in Pakistan since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto expire in a gun and suicide attack on her motorcade at the end of an election rally on December 27, 2007.