"My Father Died for Pakistan"
TWENTY-SEVEN. That’s the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday — my brother Shehryar’s 25th birthday — outside a market near our family home in Islamabad.
That is the opening paragraph of this New York Times op ed with the same title as this diary (minus the quotes). It was written by Shehrbano Taseer,who is a journalist withNewsweek Pakistan and is the son of the assassinated Governor.
It is powerful. It tells of a man