Sunday, April 3, 2011

Pakistan: Extra cover for 4 women who dare to speak out

Rehman had last year submitted a bill to the National Assembly to amend the controversial blasphemy law and make it harder for extremists to exploit it.

Rights activist Asmai Jahangir
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch |
Source/Credit: The Times of India
By TOI | April 4, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani law enforcement agencies have stepped up security details for three liberal women lawmakers and a human rights lawyer, including former minister Sherry Rehman, because of threats from extremists, according to a media report.

The four women had spoken out against militants the Express Tribune said. They are PPP leader and ex-minister Sherry Rehman, former PPP spokesperson Fauzia Wahab , PML-Q parliamentarian Kashmala Tariq and supreme court bar association president Asma Jahangir.

Rehman had last year submitted a bill to the National Assembly to amend the controversial blasphemy law and make it harder for extremists to exploit it.

Jahangir had supported Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death last year under the blasphemy law for allegedly insulting the Prophet.

Wahab attracted the ire of religious extremists when she made a statement claiming that CIA contractor Raymond Davis.[sic]

Tariq has been receiving kidnapping threats.


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