Part I of a three-part exhibition series entitled Letters to Taseer organised by different curators promises variety with a common theme.

More than a month into 2012, the past year already feels like a distant memory. Newsline has compiled some of the biggest events of 2011 as a reminder of the many tragedies and occasional triumphs that took place not so long ago.

A look back at the people who made Pakistan less than proud in 2011.

For Newsline’s Annual 2012 issue, Nadir Hassan compiled a list of people who made Pakistan proud in 2011.

This is where “breaking news” is ‘broken’ in such a way that it can never be ‘fixed.’ And here, Pakistanis, in general, buy the spin and live happily ever after.

Salmaan Taseer was tragically gunned down a year from today for speaking up against the country’s controversial Blasphemy Law. Newsline has compiled interviews with and articles on the former governor of Punjab as well as the Blasphemy Law debate.

In a confusing frenzy in which Qadri was labelled ‘Ashiq-e-Rasool‘ and Taseer’s murder was justified on the grounds of his ‘un-Islamic’ character and lifestyle, it is impossible not to be shocked by the attitude custodians of our justice system have adopted.

Where does the government, more specifically the Punjab government, figure in all of the craziness and continued growing extremism: the head money on the judge who passed the death penalty against Mumtaz Qadri, the Sunni Tehreek’s offer of diyat to the Taseer family and the growth of the LeJ?

Handing down a death sentence may stop one man, but it will not stop the mindset that the remorseless murderer represents.

Equal justice in similar and straightforward murder cases is hard to come by when an extremist mindset obscures the evidence.