An interesting article on the initial assessment assessment of Qadri. A little more disturbing than I expected because his background is just very average for a Pakistani.
What’s also disturbing is that the police said that the only reason he wasn’t tortured was because he openly confessed everything. Yet again showing that our police’s approcah to getting information starts with torture.
-Had a long love affair that turned into his marriage 11 months ago
-Would occasionally grow his beard
-Never attended a madrassah
-Would visit shrines
Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, is not a religious fanatic having extremist ideologies. This was disclosed in the initial report submitted to Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
According to the report, Mumtaz Qadri had fulfilled all worldly requirements and was married 11 months ago. Before his marriage, he had a long love affair with a girl residing in Karachi. He some times grew beard or trimmed it.
Officials are investigating how the idea of attacking Governor Taseer came to his mind because he is not religious fanatic. Mumtaz Qadri never enrolled at any Madrassa; however, he used to visit shrines.
His record shows that he regularly used to attend gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami. It is surprising for security officials that how a man having inclination towards the Dawat-e-Islami took the extreme step of killing Governor Taseer when no suspected militant out of the 150 arrested from the suburbs of the capital belongs to this religious party.
The officials, while giving a briefing to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, said Mumtaz Qadri did not conceal anything and described each and everything clearly and, therefore, there was no need to use ‘third degree’ torture.