A Pakistani court sentences a university professor to death for blasphemy under a law that critics say is often used to target minorities and liberal activists.

A Pakistani Christian woman has been freed from prison yesterday a week after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction and death sentence for blasphemy against Islam, and she is at a secure location in the country, officials said.

The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman at the centre of a divisive blasphemy case has pleaded for international help to leave the