pakistan quran 7 6 2012

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It took the false accusation of a 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome for Pakistan to question its controversial blasphemy law.

Around 2,000 dragged mentally unstable man from police station and burnt him.

A Christian girl has been arrested and beaten for allegedly burning "passages of the Holy Quran."

The girl has been accused of burning pages from a book that contained verses from the Koran.

A court in Pakistan today granted bail to Rimsha Masih, the Christian girl accused of blasphemy.

Deaf Pakistani men carry the Koran and placards during a protest in Lahore on March 18, 2012, over the burning of Korans in Afghanistan.

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