Dozens of members from minority communities have been killed because of the misuse of the blasphemy law.
BALTIMORE, MD, US: I write with reference to Nasim Zehra’s brave call for repealing the blasphemy law in her article of November 17 titled “Time to repeal the blasphemy law”. General Ziaul Haq enacted this law to legitimise his usurping of power. The result has been that in the decades following its imposition, dozens of members from minority communities have been killed because of the misuse of the blasphemy law. Repealing this statute would earn Pakistan international respect.
Faheem Younus
Clinical associate professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Published in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2010.
