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Pakistan Officials Report Most Blasphemy Cases in Past Five Years Were False

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Islamabad, July 27 (IANS) Officials in Pakistan recently reported to a parliamentary committee that most of the 333 blasphemy cases lodged in the country’s four provinces in the past five years were false, reports have stated. Provincial home secretaries and senior police officials reported to the Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights that the false cases included those involving Christians and other religious minorities. The official data presented to the committee revealed that Punja…