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Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
Rousset, Pierre http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article46938
Publisher: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres
Date Written: 13/11/2018
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Article
Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
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The Pakistani Supreme Court had just declared Asia Bibi innocent of the crime of blasphemy for which she was previously sentenced to death. Religious movements did not accept the decision and fought back, calling to paralyze the country by blocking the roads, opening a major political crisis.
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