Salman Taseer ; was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011.
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21 Facts About Salmaan Taseer
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Salmaan Taseer served as a minister in the caretaker cabinet of Prime Minister Mian Soomro under Pervez Musharraf during the 2008 elections.
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Salmaan Taseer was appointed as the governor of Punjab on 15 May 2008, by then-President Musharraf at the request of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
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In 1994, Salmaan Taseer established a brokerage house backed by the Smith Barney and in 1996 he founded the Worldcall Group.
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Salmaan Taseer's other son, Shaan, is a leading critic of the country's blasphemy law.
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Salmaan Taseer's mother was Christobel George, a British woman who, upon her wedding, converted to Islam and took the name Bilqis.
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Salmaan Taseer's father died in 1950 at the age of 47, when Salmaan Taseer was only six years old.
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Salmaan Taseer attended St Anthony's School, a school run by Christian missionaries in Lahore, where he was a classmate of Nawaz Sharif.
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Salmaan Taseer then obtained a degree in Chartered Accountancy from London.
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Salmaan Taseer was married twice, and had two confirmed extra-marital relationships.
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Salmaan Taseer had a brief extramarital relationship with the Indian journalist Tavleen Singh.
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Salmaan Taseer met Singh during a book promotion trip to India in March 1980.
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Salmaan Taseer was a part of the movement for Bhutto's freedom and opposed his arrest and death sentence.
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Salmaan Taseer wrote a political biography on Bhutto titled Bhutto: A political biography.
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Salmaan Taseer was known to be one of the trusted aides of Bhutto's daughter and political heir, Benazir Bhutto.
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In December 2010, Salmaan Taseer was alleged to have left the country for several days without handing over charge to the Punjab Assembly Speaker.
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Salmaan Taseer set up several chartered accountancy and management consultancy firms early in his career.
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Salmaan Taseer founded the Worldcall group with a payphone network in 1996.
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Salmaan Taseer owned an English news channel in Pakistan, Business Plus; and the first children's channel, Wikkid Plus; and was the publisher of the English language Daily Times.
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