Pakistani Student Charged With Blasphemy For Remarks on Exam Paper

Yet another blasphemy arrest in Pakistan is drawing international criticism.  Human Rights Watch this week urged the Pakistani government to drop blasphemy charges and release from detention a 17-year old student who was charged with blasphemy for remarks he included last April on his school exam paper.  Muhammad Samiullah was sent to a juvenile prison last week pending trial after a complaint was filed by the chief controller of the intermediate level education board. Police will not disclose exactly what was written on the exam paper, saying that doing so would itself amount to blasphemy.