PTI seeks to withdraw from Senate key bill seeking strict punishments for false blasphemy accusations
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Leader of the House in the Senate Syed Shibli Faraz on Friday submitted a request to the Senate Secretariat for the withdrawal of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2018. The bill had been moved on the directions of the Islamabad High Court after (then) Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had ordered last year that those who make false accusations of blasphemy should be given the same punishment as those convicted of blasphemy under the law. However, in a statement yesterday, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and...