Pakistan Interior Minister warns Islamists to disperse four-day rally peacefully

The rally turned violent on Sunday when more than 10,000 Islamists from Pakistan’s Sunni Tehreek group descended on the capital to denounce last month’s hanging of officer Mumtaz Qadri for the 2011 murder of secular Governor Salman Taseer who had campaigned against Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws.

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Since the start of the rally, the crowds have dwindled down to about 1,200 people. The protesters also demand the hanging of a jailed Christian woman whom Taseer had defended against blasphemy allegations.