By Dsaved.com
A Pakistan court has acquitted a pastor accused of insulting Islam
because the pastor’s accuser has told the court he was mistaken.
Karma Patras, 56, already had been released on bail from Sheikhupura
District Jail in February after the man who filed the complaint, Syed
Zulqarnain Shah, told court his accusation had been lodged mistakenly.
The formal withdrawal of charges June 14 makes Patras at least the
fourth Christian this year to be released after being charged with
blasphemy, which is illegal in Pakistan. Local sources told
World Watch Monitor they know of no other case in which the complainant had retracted an accusation of blasphemy.
The removal of charges against Patras, who spent about four months in
jail before his February release, comes as Aasiya Noreen, widely known
as Aasiya Bibi, marks her fourth year since she was accused of
blasphemy. The only woman in Pakistan convicted of the charge, Noreen
was sentenced to death in November 2010. She remains in Pakistan’s
Sheikhupura prison, 75 kilometres from Lahore, awaiting her appeal to a
higher court.
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Friday, 28 June 2013
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