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| Pakistani Christian family flee death threats |
| 2010-11-25 |
| [Dawn] A Pak Christian family whose mother has been sentenced to death for insulting Islam has gone into hiding because of death threats, they said Wednesday. Politicians and conservative holy mans are at loggerheads on whether President Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who showed remarkably little curiosity about who actually done her in ... should pardon Aasia Bibi, a mother of five sentenced to hang for defaming Prophet Muhammed under controversial blasphemy laws. Pakistain's minister for minority affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, who is himself a Christian, told news hounds that Aasia's family had been forced to flee their home but declined to say where they were staying because of security fears. Aasia's husband, Ashiq Masih, who works in a brick factory in the Shekhupura district near Lahore, said he and his children aged nine to 20 had left home because of death threats, but declined to say where they were now living. "We are frightened. We are receiving threats, especially from holy mans. They started demonstrations in the area," he told news hounds in Bhatti's Islamabad office, accompanied by daughters Eesham, nine, and Sidra, 18. "Yesterday there was a protest in Shekhupura. They said they will not leave Aasia Bibi alive if she is pardoned." Rights activists say Pakistain's blasphemy law, under which the offence is punishable by death, encourages extremism in a conservative Mohammedan country on the front line of the US-led war on Al-Qaeda. Masih said the case was baseless and that the family were "not mad to insult any Prophet, religion or the Koran", telling how his children broke down in tears when they found out about their mother's plight. Bhatti said he would submit a petition from the family asking Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to pardon Aasia. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Just some shit in a shitty place. Boycott Pakistan! |
| Posted by: Uleatch Dribble8106 2010-11-25 12:00 |