As Pakistan's liberal and secular sections rejoiced over the conviction of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's assassin, the irony was not lost on them. This was an open-and-shut case. Malik Mumtaz Husain Qadri had not only pumped bullets into Taseer in full view of other policemen but also confessed to his act with pride.
But, as was repeatedly pointed out by those shell-shocked by Qadri's act and the support he drew from “people like us,” so low is the expectation of the average Pakistani from various institutions of the state that a judge doing his duty became a cause célèbre.
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