A Christian man has been sentenced to death for sacrilege by
a court after a close friend indicted him of sharing material making fun of Islam.
Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Muslim-majority Pakistan,
& insults against the Prophet are punished by death.
Parliament has thought about adding safeguards to blasphemy
laws, a novel move given the emotive nature of the issue.
There have been at least 67 murders over unconfirmed
allegations of blasphemy since 1990, according to figures from a research
centre & independent records kept by Reuters .
In 2011, a bodyguard assassinated Punjab provincial governor
Salman Taseer after calling for the blasphemy
laws to be reformed.
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