Mumtaz Qadri hanged in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi
Qadri was convicted of killing Punjab governor Salman Taseer.
Mumtaz Qadri, convicted for killing Punjab governor Salman Taseer, was executed at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Monday morning.
Qadri was awarded to death sentence by an Anti-Terrorism court for assassinating Salman Taseer in Islamabad on January 2011.
The Supreme Court had also upheld the death sentence of Pakistan in October last.
Later, President Mamnoon Hussain dismissed his clemency appeal.
The body of Mumtaz Qadri has been handed over to his family.
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