A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced a police officer to death for the killing of Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer earlier this year.
The high-profile slaying of the governor by officer Mumtaz Qadri in January in Islamabad was widely taken as a sign that Pakistan was buckling under the weight of extremism.
State-run Pakistan Television says Qadri was convicted and sentenced on Saturday in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi close to the capital. The trial was held in a prison and was closed to the media.
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