Pak: Silence is the mother of all blasphemies

Fri, 04 March 2011

11:29

As a colleague pointed out just now, the world has become strangely nonchalant to the news of of Pakistan's Shahbaz Bhatti's murder,unlike the uproar,two months ago, when Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was killed.

Now, the Guardian's Mohammed Hanif writes that Pakistan's mullahs and muftis have managed to blur the line between what God says and what they say.

Read his column

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