Ambassadors from several countries and senior American officials paid tributes to assassinated Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer, as they recalled his qualities of courageous and progressive leadership in a condolence book placed at the Pakistani embassy.
Those who recorded their condolences included State Department officials from the office of special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Washington-based senior diplomats from several Muslim, European and South Asian countries, and a number of prominent Pakistani-Americans. The visitors to the embassy praised Taseer as a voice of tolerance and termed his death a great loss for the country.