A Punjab governor in Islamabad was also shot dead by his own bodyguard in 2011, after he defended a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, who was accused of blasphemy. She was acquitted after eight years of being sentenced to death and receiving threats, leaving Pakistan for Canada to join her family.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mob-attacks-pakistan-police-fail-to-grab-blasphemy-suspect/2021/11/29/4b892cda-50e5-11ec-83d2-d9dab0e23b7e_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world Crowd attacked Pakistani police, failed to catch blasphemy suspect
