PAKISTAN: GILANI REJECTS PROPOSAL TO AMEND BLASPHEMY LAW

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani approved a recommendation to reject official proposals to amend Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law and to pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Prophet Mohammed. The Minority Affairs Ministry had proposed the amendment of the blasphemy law while the Interior Ministry had launched an initiative to pardon Asia Bibi.