by LEELA JACINTO
Another Pakistani Christian targeted story, another news peg to examine the status of Pakistan’s alarmingly victimized Christian minority.
This time, the story has an ignominious, historic first. For the first time in Pakistan’s 63 year history, a court in Pakistan’s most populated Punjab province has sentenced a Christian woman to death for blasphemy.
Accounts of what exactly happened in Asia Bibi’s case vary, but only slightly.
Some local news reports say Asia Bibi had a row with her fellow village women about her faith, some say the Christian woman was being forced to convert to Islam and resisted the pressure. Her husband says the altercation started when her fellow farmworkers refused to give her access to the village well.
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