A new day for Pakistan? The Aasia Bibi Verdict
4 min readOct 31, 2018
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A strange thing has happened in the land of the pure, the bastion of Islam that is Pakistan. A woman imprisoned for almost nine years and who was on death row for blasphemy has been acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The reason I call this strange, is that in Pakistan it is. The country’s infamous blasphemy laws are used willy-nilly to settle personal scores and it is very…