Petition to UN seeks repeal of Pakistan's blasphemy laws: Law allegedly used to settle scores
A petition calling for the repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which impose the death sentence on a person found desecrating the Qur’an, has been delivered to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The signatories say the law is used to settle scores with non-Muslims and in recent times has been exploited to incite hatred and attacks against Pakistan’s minority Christian community.