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  • Pakistan cleric offers reward for killing Christian woman

    12/04/2010 1:08:32 PM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    Agence France-Presse ^ | December 3, 2010
    Maulana Yousuf Qureshi issued the call in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, at a rally against moves to pardon the woman. Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was sentenced on November 8 to death by hanging, under controversial blasphemy laws that human rights activists say encourage Islamist extremism. The government attempted to pardon Bibi after an international outcry over the case, but a Pakistani court on Monday prevented it from granting her a swift pardon. "We demand that the government should hang her to death under the law. If it does not do so, we will offer a...