Pakistan girl jailed for blasphemy

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

ISLAMABAD -- A Christian girl was sent to a Pakistani prison after being accused by her furious Muslim neighbors of burning pages of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, in violation of the country's strict blasphemy laws.

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