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Allies of Pakistan's assassinated liberal politician Salman Taseer yesterday alluded to his killing as part of a wider plot, slamming security failures that saw his bodyguard charged with murder.
Pakistan's most high-profile political assassination in three years has bitterly divided the country, horrifying moderates but winning praise from religious scholars and lawyers who festooned the presumed killer in garlands.
A member of an elite commando responsible for protecting Taseer confessed to killing him in broad daylight outside an Islamabad cafe to silence his efforts to reform laws that make defaming the Prophet Mohammed punishable by death.
But Taseer's political allies suggest Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, pictured grinning after allegedly pumping nearly 30 bullets into Taseer's body, acted as part of a wider conspiracy and accused police of a cover-up.
"The martyrdom of Mr Salman Taseer is a conspiracy against Pakistan and Pakistani institutions," said Imtiaz Safdar Warraich, a junior cabinet minister in the main ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), to which Taseer belonged.
"The people behind this assassination should be exposed immediately... There was a serious security lapse," he said.
DAILYSTAR
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