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Pakistan — SAP-PK: Pak Government Hostage to the Extremists Will Not Abolish the Blasphemy Law

(Pakistan) SAP-PK: government hostage to the extremists will not abolish the blasphemy law
— Asia News reports
that “Irfan Mufti, director of South Asian Partnership-Pakistan (SAP-PK), who tells AsiaNews that the country lacks the ‘political will’ to reject the ‘controversial law'”
April 16, 2008 – Rehman and Gilani at Pakistan National Assembly mtg where it passes resolution calling for U.N. to impose death penalty internationally for blasphemy
—- “Karim’s resolution condemned the reprinting of the controversial cartoons in Danish newspapers and demanded that the UN make a law suggesting capital punishment for blasphemy”