SC frees blasphemy accused jailed for over two decades.

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a blasphemy accused who was sentenced to death by the trial court and the high court. Wajeehul Hassan was accused by a lawyer, Advocate Ismail Qureshi, in 1998 of writing blasphemous letters to him. According to the prosecution, the letters were sent to Qureshi after the acceptance of his request to the Federal Shariah Court to change the punishment for blasphemy from life imprisonment to death sentence. During the hearing, Justice Sajjad Shah observed that the prosecution has failed to prove that the...

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