Another blasphemy law highlight

[shami2k]

Re: Another blasphemy law highlight

@hanibal

Is that true?

As hadood i am pretty much sure about it, the law was Zia’s effort… but i need to re-check with the Blasphemy law, as far as i understand, it was part of 1973’s constittution or maybe added later… like i said i need to check it out…

anyway, it is going to be the parliament who can remove it or redo it… but again it ain’t going anywhere any time soon…

Yes, it is true. These laws have been on books since 1860, and main reason for these laws was to keep communal harmony between Hindus and Muslims. The laws still exists on books even in India, but you never hear about anyone being sentenced to death for blasphemy. What Zia did was he added mandatory death sentence for blasphemy.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=73608

British government had enacted a similar law in the Sub-continent in 1860, and amended it with imprisonment clause for blasphemers in 1927 soon after Ghazi Ilm Din’s incident. However, the disputed point regarding blasphemy law in Pakistan between the divided sections is not blasphemy law itself but only its death penalty clause, which was inserted into law by General Zia-ul-Haq.