Pakistan's top court upholds death sentence in blasphemy murder case

Supreme court says Mumtaz Qadri should be executed for shooting dead Punjab governor who backed reform of country's hardline blasphemy laws A former police bodyguard revered as a hero by Pakistani conservatives for killing a politician who criticised the country's blasphemy laws has had his death sentence upheld. In ordinary circumstances there would never be any doubt about which way the supreme court decision would go: Mumtaz Qadri is unrepentent at having shot dead Salmaan Taseer, then govern...