Pakistan minister seeks pardon for blasphemy death Christian woman...

A Pakistani cabinet minister on Thursday presented a report to President Asif Ali Zardari recommending a pardon for a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam.

Asia Bibi was sentenced to hang in Pakistan's central province of Punjab earlier this month after being found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

Rights activists say Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law, under which the offence is punishable by death, encourages Islamist extremism in a Muslim country on the front line of the US-led war on al-Qaeda. More...

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