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August 18, 2009 second Pakistan update

On August 17, 2009, attorneys for ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL (AI), the JUBILEE CAMPAIGN and the PAKISTAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE, following up on AI's August 11 press release, met with representatives of the Pakistan government to deliver a letter to the Ambassador of Pakistan requesting a transparent investigation and prosecution of all perpetrators involved in the recent burning of Christian churches, the dismissal of all pending blasphemy complaints on the grounds they are both unfounded and unconstitutional, and the abolishment of the Pakistan's blasphemy laws on the grounds that they are unconstitutional as applied, unworkable and counter- productive to any lawful purpose for which they were originally promulgated.

 

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