US seeks end to discriminatory applications for blasphemy

Pakistan Dawn
January 19, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1081/us-seeks-end-to-discriminatory-applications-for

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WASHINGTON: The United States is not asking Pakistan to change or repeal the blasphemy law but is encouraging the government to prevent possible discriminations and potentials for abuse, says Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy and Human Rights Michael H. Posner.

"We are reluctant to prescribe changes and alternatives," said Mr Posner when asked what changes he believed Pakistan needed to make to prevent discriminatory applications of this law. "But we do believe that people should be free to practice their religion."

In an interview to Dawn, the US official said the blasphemy law would be one of the subjects he would discuss with Pakistani officials, opposition leaders and civil society activists during his visit to Pakistan this week.

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