Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

Pakistan’s profane blasphemy laws

Islamists are using the country's sharia laws to persecute minorities

A poster depicting Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy in Pakistan (Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)

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