Pakistan cleric offers reward for killing Christian woman: "PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A hardline cleric in northwest Pakistan on Friday offered a reward of $6,000 to anyone who kills a Christian mother sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Mohammed.
Maulana Yousuf Qureshi issued the call in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, at a rally against moves to pardon the woman.
Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was sentenced on November 8 to death by hanging, under controversial blasphemy laws that human rights activists say encourage Islamist extremism.
The government attempted to pardon Bibi after an international outcry over the case, but a Pakistani court on Monday prevented it from granting her a swift pardon.
'We demand that the government should hang her to death under the law. If it does not do so, we will offer a reward of 500,000 rupees ($6,000) to anyone killing her,' Qureshi said."
Monday, December 6, 2010
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