The next session of Pakistan's National Assembly will present 'a motion for the review of the anti-blasphemy law', according to Sherry Rehman, a Muslim member of Parliament, of the Pakistan Peoples Party and Chairman of the Jinnah Institute of Political Studies in Islamabad. The move is being seen as another intent - after those that have failed in the past – taking advantage of the massive publicity given to the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.

This step is "important for the whole country, which needs to free itself from radicalism and extremism," sources supporting the initiative told Fides. The motion will aim to set in motion the Subcommittee on Blasphemy, which exists within the Parliamentary Committee for Religious Minorities, but, Rehman notes, it aims to "involve all Parliament, to make it give the Commission a clear mandate for proposed revision."  read more »