The bodyguard accused of shooting the Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province Salman Taseer has confessed in court to the killing. Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri told the Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi today that he had acted alone in the attack. He was whisked into court a day earlier than scheduled to prevent supporters showing up, reports say. It comes a day after 50,000 protesters marched in Karachi against proposed amendments, backed by the slain Punjab governor, to the strict blasphemy law. A private member's bill which seeks to remove the law's mandatory death sentence and lessen the likelihood of miscarriages of justice has provoked a wave of conservative fury.