{"id":1446,"date":"2009-08-11T02:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","slug":"pakistan-anti-christian-riots-prompt-look-at-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/pakistan-anti-christian-riots-prompt-look-at-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN &#8211; Anti-Christian Riots Prompt Look at Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>August 7, 2009<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>PAKISTAN<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\nPakistan&#8217;s prime minister pledged Thursday to review laws that may be sharpening tension among the country&#8217;s religious communities, days after a Muslim mob burned houses in rioting that killed eight Christians.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The killings Saturday in the eastern city of Gojra came amid concerns that rising extremist Islam has deepened the vulnerability of Pakistan&#8217;s minorities.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani&#8217;s announcement suggested that the government may seek to change Pakistan&#8217;s blasphemy laws, which can carry the death penalty for those convicted of insulting Islam, the prophet Muhammad or the Koran.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8212; Associated Press<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">The Washington Post &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 7, 2009 &nbsp; PAKISTAN &nbsp; Pakistan&#8217;s prime minister pledged Thursday to review laws that may be sharpening tension among the country&#8217;s religious communities, days after a Muslim mob burned houses in rioting that killed eight Christians. &nbsp; The killings Saturday in the eastern city of Gojra came amid concerns that rising extremist Islam has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/08\/Members_of_Pakistan_s_tiny_Christian_minority.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}