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Pakistan: No Protection Against Fatwa

Written byRezwan

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Posted 8 December 2010 19:19 GMT

A cleric in Peshawar has publicly offered a reward of Pakistani Rs500,000 to anyone who will kill Aasia Bibi, a Christian brick-kiln labourer,who was sentenced to death for blasphemy by a district court. Adil Najam is outraged by the inaction of the government.

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