LAHORE: Pakistani security agencies has started a high level of investigation about the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer who was killed by one of his security guards on Tuesday afternoon in capital Islamabad.
Federal Interior Minister Reman Malik talking to media told that he had formed a three member investigation committee consisting of higher level police officer.
"Investigation team will check whether it was his (killer) individual planning and attempt or there was any conspiracy behind this brutal act," said Malik.
Police presented the killer before the judicial magistrate in his court in Islamabad and requested for the five days judicial remand. But magistrate Naeem Shaukat denied the said remand and gave only one day remand ordering to present the murderer in the anti-terrorism court which is bound for quick prosecution.
Governor Taseer, 64 years old, was assassinated by his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadari, aged 26, with AK-47 gun when he was about to sit in his car after his lunch with a friend at a market in the downtown area of Islamabad.
Qadari fired whole magazine having 30 bullets at governor out which 27 rounds hit the deceased's head, face, neck, chest and belly, medical postmortem report confirmed it.
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