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Prime minister May says she’s concerned for safety of Pakistani mother who faces lynch mob over ‘blasphemy’

Pakistani supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a religious political party, chant slogans and gestures while waving the party flag during a protest following the Supreme Court decision to acquit Christian woman Asia Bibi of blasphemy, in Karachi on November 4, 2018. (Photo: RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

By: Keerthi Mohan

Prime minister Theresa May on Wednesday (13) pledged to protect Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, but stopped short of offering her asylum in the UK. May said her “primary concern” was the safety of Bibi and her family, but Britain is yet to grant them asylum, their lawyer Saif ul Mulook was quoted as saying by Mail Online. Mulook said: “Right now, she is safe, she is being kept secure by the Pakistan armed forces. But she will leave the moment a country offers her a visa. So far, the UK has refused. One of the British MEPs I spoke to…

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