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Last updated: 10 january, 2011 - 14:53 GMT

Salman Taseer assassination

A portrait of the assassinated Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, during a candlelight vigil in commemoration of his life. Photo: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

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The assassination last week of one of Pakistan's most prominent politicians, Salman Taseer, has left the country reeling.

The liberal governor of Punjab province was gunned down in a market in Islamabad.

One of his bodyguards has confessed to the killing, saying it was in retaliation for Salman Taseer's call for Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws to be reconsidered.

While liberals consider the assassination a catastrophe, some on the religious right have been celebrating it.

Salman Taseer had six children. Outlook's Jo Fidgen spoke to two of them from their garden in Lahore - Sara, his eldest daughter, and his son Shehryar, who turned 25 on the day his father died.

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