Salmaan Taseer was born into an affluent family of intellectuals [8] on May 31, 1944, in Simla , [8] which at that time was in British India . His father, Dr. Muhammad Din Taseer, popularly known as “M.D. Taseer”, was a close friend of Allama Iqbal . [8] His mother Bilqis Taseer (Christobel)