WHERE NOW FOR ASIA?
The court’s decision on the future of Asia Bibi on 31 October was never going to provide a peaceful ending, whichever way it went.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court decided to release her, rejecting calls for the death penalty for the mother, imprisoned for over nine years on a false charge of blasphemy. Unsurprisingly, this led to unrest in Pakistan, then government capitulation to extremists, and the innocent forced to flee the country.