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| Blasphemy law is not God-given, it is man-made, says Taseer |
| 2010-11-26 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has said that he went to meet Aasia Bibi for the sake of humanity only and the blasphemy law was man-made and not God-given, adding that his meeting with Aasia Bibi was being politicised, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. Talking during an interview with the channel, Taseer said no Mohammedan could even imagine blasphemy, adding that the issue important for him was reviewing the blasphemy law. "Even now, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Pakistain Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan, ... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker... Nilofer Bakhtiar, Sherry Rehman and others have talked about bringing a change in this law," he said, adding that he had conducted a complete investigation of the matter that the law was used against Aasia. He said he did not want to further comment on the issue, as it would be dealt in the high court. The governor said that the blasphemy itself, in his opinion, was an offence, but to misuse it by falsely accusing someone was a bigger offence. He rejected the opinion that he was doing political point scoring, saying that he was surely a liberal, but he could not understand the allegations of pro-Westernisation made against him. |
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