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Pakistan religious leader urges rulers to remove "ambiguity" in blasphemy law.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of unattributed report headlined "Written guarantee should be given on blasphemy law otherwise we will stage sit-in: Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan" published by Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt on 31 January

Lahore, 31 January: Sahibzada Fazal Kareem, head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, has said that the entire country is protesting against the issue of the blasphemy law but that instead of making his position and policy clear, the president is keeping a mysterious silence.

"Similarly, Nawaz Sharif, chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz [PML-N], is also silent because of the fear of the United States. The rulers are trying to evade and pacify the issue of the …

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