Thursday, August 23, 2012

Pakistani Christians flee homes in blasphemy backlash

Pakistani Christian women collect their belongings to leave their home in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. A Christian girl from the same locality 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. According to families they feel threatened and asked by Muslim house owners to vacate their houses. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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