Islamabad: Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Sunday refuted social media reports of Asiya Bibi, the Chris<\/b>
\nIslamabad: Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Office on Sunday refuted social media reports of Asiya Bibi, the Christian woman, who was acquitted by the Supreme Court for blasphemy charges last month, of leaving the country.
Terming the reports as \u201cfalse and baseless\u201d, a spokesperson for the Foreign Office said, \u201cAsiya Bibi has not left Pakistan and she is in the country,\u201d Geo News reported.
Last week, the Foreign Office had dismissed reports of Asiya and her family leaving Pakistan.
On November 7, Asiya was released from a women\u2019s prison in Multan after the completion of all formalities by the jail administration. However, speculations were rife that she had left the country soon after she was released from prison.
On October 31, mass protests had erupted in various parts of Pakistan after the country\u2019s top court acquitted Asiya pertaining to a blasphemy case.
A three-judge special bench headed by Justice Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel heard Asiya\u2019s 2014 appeal against her conviction and death sentence and overturned the ruling in favour of her.
Asiya was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010 for allegedly insulting Islam during an argument with three Muslim women.
Meanwhile, Asiya\u2019s lawyer, Saif-ul-Mulook, who fled Pakistan, following threats to his life told CNN last week that an asylum application was filed in the Netherlands for Asiya and her family, and the same was submitted to the authorities.<\/p>\n

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