PAKISTAN’S ANTI-BLASPHEMY LAWS - TESTIMONY OF NINA SHEA, DIRECTOR HUDSON INSTITUTE’S CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

BEFORE THE TOM LANTOS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

OCTOBER 8, 2009

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding these timely and important hearings that go to the very heart of religious freedom and its denial in Pakistan. Just last week, Congress unanimously passed legislation authorizing $7.5 billion over five years to support civilian social and economic development in Pakistan. The foreign policies that this bill aims to advance will be undermined if Pakistan continues to promote religious intolerance and extremism in its criminal justice system, particularly through its criminalization of blasphemy and apostasy."

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