  Notes from different corners of the world. Jan. 10 2011 5:29
PM  In Pakistan, the Shooter Is the Hero    Pakistanis mourn
Salman Taseer . Click image to expand. Pakistanis mourn Salman
Taseer       The response has been so overwhelming that
authorities furtively moved up Qadri's hearing to Monday to pre-
empt more gatherings of adoring crowds. (It was originally
scheduled for Tuesday.) This weekend in Karachi, 50,000 people
came out in support of the blasphemy law Qadri was supposedly
defending when he shot Taseer more than 20 times in the back.
Taseer, the appointed governor of Pakistan's largest and richest
province, made headlines prior to his Jan. 4 assassination when
he took up the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sitting on
death row after being convicted of blasphemy. He called a law
that sentences anyone who insults Islam to death a "black law."
The result was that the outspoken liberal politician and
personal friend of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was shot
outside an upscale market in