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Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman and daughter of slain Punjab governor Shehrbano Taseer, have featured on The Daily Beast (Newsweek) list of...
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Following in Her Father's Footsteps
Asserting that it would be a “terrible disservice” for the work and sacrifice of her slain father to die with him, Shehrbano Taseer told a packed room at the Middle East Institute earlier this week that the struggle against injustice and extremism in Pakistan must continue.
The young journalist told a very moving story of her father, Governor Salmaan Taseer, who was a vocal critic of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and a passionate advocate for society’s marginalized and voiceless. He was assassinated by a member of his own security detail after taking up the case and seeking clemency for a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy under laws that Shehrbano called “draconian and archaic.”
Shehrbano related that while her father was shot 27 times neither his larynx nor heart were hit and that symbolically his voice would not be silenced and that his compassion for those unjustly persecuted in Pakistan would not end with his dea