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Pakistan: Meeting to suggest changes in blasphemy laws postponed until January 2010

Pakistan: Meeting to suggest changes in blasphemy laws postponed until January 2010
— Pakistan Daily Times reports:
— Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti “said despite discussing the issue in the meeting, the final draft to bring amendments to the laws could not be made”
— Shahbaz Bhatti: “We have asked assembly members to discuss the issue with the leadership of their parties and then a draft would be prepared, so that when it would be brought in the national assembly, it has the support of all political parties, therefore we have postponed the meeting till January 2010”