“No grounds for Supreme Court review”, says Asia Bibi’s lawyer, having fled country
World Watch Monitor The lawyer who defended the Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi against blasphemy charges and secured her acquittal at the Supreme Court says he does not expect a review of her case to take place. As part of its agreement with an Islamist political party to stop its violent protests, the government is reported to […]
ASIA BIBI: “A VICTORY FOR PAKISTAN AND MILLIONS OF MARGINALISED PEOPLE”
World Watch Monitor reports on the acquittal of Asia Bibi and reactions to it…
Family of murdered Pakistani Christian MP open training centre for women
World Watch Monitor The family of the murdered Catholic MP Shahbaz Bhatti is opening an education centre for Christian women and girls in Khushpur, eastern Pakistan, reports AsiaNews. Khushpur, near Faisalabad in Punjab province, is the largest Christian settlement in Pakistan and the area where the former minister for minorities came from and where he is buried. A […]
Asia Bibi central to trade deals, EU tells Pakistan
World Watch Monitor The EU’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Jan Figeľ, told Pakistani officials during a recent visit that the renewal of their export privileges to Europe depends on the release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy since 2010. “The EU countries have started believing that […]