ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Information, Fawad Chaudhry has clarified that negotiations with the protesters assembled in different parts of the country against the decision of Supreme Court in Asia Bibi case, are underway.
The minister took to Twitter on Friday and announced that the government was not desirous of ‘use of force’ against the workers of the religious party who are staging a protest against the acquittal of Asia Bibi by the apex court.
https://twitter.com/fawadchaudhry/status/1058222712953352192
The situation is under control across the country, claimed the lawmaker.
Fawad Chaudhry expressed that media reports regarding the crackdown on the protesters were baseless, saying the religious affairs minister, Noorul Haq Qadri will continue engaging with the protesters on Friday as well.
Hundreds of workers mainly from Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan have assembled at different thoroughfares in multiple cities – including Lahore, Karachi – across the country to protest against the decision of the top court which acquitted a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/headline/asia-bibi-acquittal-army-responds-to-statements-of-tlps-firebrand-clerics/
Overturning her conviction, the bench ordered to immediately release the Christian woman, who was in jail for past eight years if there is no anymore case against her.
The allegations against Bibi date back to June 2009, when she was labouring in a field and a row broke out with some Muslim women who alleged that she committed blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). A case was filed against her by a prayer leader in Katanwala village of Nankana Sahib.
Bibi was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death in 2010 by a trial court. She later moved the Lahore High Court against the execution sentence, however, the court had upheld the verdict.
