ISLAMABAD: Pakistan deployed hundreds of security forces in the capital Islamabad Thursday as the Supreme Court readied to hear a final appeal in the country’s most notorious blasphemy case.
Lawyers for Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five who has been on death row since 2010, will seek to have her death sentence overturned, with observers warning of “tremendous” repercussions for minorities in deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan.
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