Salmaan Taseer (Urdu, Punjabi: سلمان تاثیر; M31 May 1944 – 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the 26th governor of the province of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in early 2011.

A member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), he had served also as a minister in the caretaker cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro under Pervez Musharraf. Taseer was also the chairman and CEO of the First Capital and Worldcall Group.

He was appointed to the post of governor on 15 May 2008, in place of outgoing governor Lt Gen (R) Khalid Maqbool, by then-President Musharraf at the request of the PPP establishment.

On 4 January 2011, Taseer was assassinated in Islamabad by his own security guard Mumtaz Qadri, who disagreed with Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Salmaan Taseer was born on 31 May 1944, in Simla Kashmir , British India His Forefathers were from Amritsar and His father was Muhammad Din Taseer popularly known as M D Taseer who was born at Ajnala, Amritsar from His Grandfather Peasant named Mian Atta ud Din.. His father, Muhammad Din Taseer, or M D Taseer a Professor at MAO College Amritsar obtained his PhD in the United Kingdom and was a close friend of Allama Iqbal who had Tied the Knot of His Friend M D Taseer and His Wife Christobel Taseers Islamic Nikah Marriage Ceremony . His late mother Bilqis Christobel Taseer ,an Englishwoman, was the sister of late Alys Faiz, a writer and poet who herself was the wife of renowned Urdu poet late Faiz Ahmad Faiz. His father Professor M D Taseer at MAO College Amritsar died when he was six years old and he and his two sisters , one is Salmaa Mahmud Taseer were brought up in relative poverty by their mother Christobel Taseer.

Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.