1. Salman Taseer was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 34th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011.
22 Facts About Salman Taseer
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Salman 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, Salman Taseer established a brokerage house backed by the Smith Barney and in 1996 he founded the Worldcall Group.
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On 4 January 2011, Salman Taseer was assassinated at the Kohsar Market in Islamabad by his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri.
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Salman Taseer's other son, Shaan, is a leading critic of the country's blasphemy law.
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Salman Taseer was born on 31 May 1944, in Shimla, British India, to a mixed-race family, being of Kashmiri descent on his father's side and of English descent on his mother's side.
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Salman 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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Salman Taseer's father died in 1950 at the age of 47, when Salman Taseer was only six years old.
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Salman Taseer had little immersion in Pakistani culture, because his mother didn't stay in contact with her late husband's family.
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Salman Taseer attended St Anthony's School where he was a classmate of Nawaz Sharif.
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Salman Taseer then obtained a degree in Chartered Accountancy from London.
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Salman Taseer was married twice, and had two confirmed extra-marital relationships.
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Salman Taseer had a brief extramarital relationship with the Indian journalist Tavleen Singh.
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Salman Taseer met Singh during a book promotion trip to India in March 1980.
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Salman Taseer started his political career in his student era as a member of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in the late 1960s.
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Salman Taseer was a part of the movement for Bhutto's freedom and opposed his arrest and death sentence.
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Salman Taseer wrote a political biography on Bhutto titled Bhutto: A political biography.
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Salman 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, Salman Taseer was alleged to have left the country for several days without handing over charge to the Punjab Assembly Speaker.
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Salman Taseer set up several chartered accountancy and management consultancy firms early in his career.
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In 1996, Salman Taseer founded the Worldcall group with a payphone network.
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In 2001, Salman Taseer founded Media Times which operated an English news channel in Pakistan, Business Plus; a children's channel, Wikkid Plus; a cooking channel, Zaiqa; and published an English-language newspaper Daily Times and an Urdu-language newspaper Aaj Kal.