The European Parliament’s European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group has nominated Asia Bibi, formally known as Aasiya Noreen, a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death in 2010 under the country’s blasphemy law and currently on death row for this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
The European Parliament’s foreign affairs and development committee will hold a joint meeting on Tuesday to shortlist three candidates for this year’s prize.
The prize — awarded every year by the European Parliament — was set up in 1988 to honour individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Three members of the EP (MEP) — Peter Van Dalen, Anna Fotyga, and Tomasz Poreba — have long campaigned for the release of Bibi, whose appeal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) has been postponed to an undetermined date.
Dr Sajjad Karim — an MEP and legal affairs spokesperson of the ECR Group — said, “The Asia Bibi matter has built up a head of steam in the EU.”
“Pakistan really must understand the message being sent by the EU,” he stated, adding that “her case and surrounding issues must be properly managed and addressed”.
We must look in his blaspheme issue with mercy and trying to create better awareness of our religion with Christianity.
There is no room in Islam for poverty. Allah Ta’ala has given us the key to His Treasury. In Verse 2 / 261, Allah promises to multiply whatever we spend out of what He has already given us in His sake “fee sabeel lillah” by too times.
I am seeking to spread such of Qur’ans messages that relate to our lives and its betterment especially with the bottom line people.Hopefully with the exception of the now called the Qadiyani “Firqa as Ahmadees, we can win the hearts of all Christendom in Pakistan, even also in India by the Muslim Community in India.
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