Governor’s Slaying, Rivals Hurt Pakistan’s Zardari
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Pakistan’s embattled President Asif Ali Zardari was weakened further by the assassination of a senior aide in the country’s most prominent political killing since the 2007 death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The killing yesterday by a policeman of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, 65, deprives Zardari of his top operative in the country’s most populous province just as their Pakistan Peoples Party has been abandoned by two allied parties, robbing it of a majority in parliament.