Pakistan Will Look Into Christian Girl’s Arrest Amid International Outcry
World News • August 2012 • Views: 1,360
Presidential probe
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has ordered the country’s Interior Ministry to investigate the arrest of 11-year-old Ramsha, a Christian girl who reportedly suffers from Down’s syndrome and was accused by her Muslim neighbors of burning pages of Islamic material (LAT, AJE). The case has sparked domestic and international furor over Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, and several other Christian families in Ramsha’s slum neighborhood outside Islamabad have fled for their lives (NYT)