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Pakistan: Foreign Office spokesman says “no truth” in reports of Asia Bibi leaving the country — “it is fake news”

Nov 8, 2018 3:42 pm By Robert Spencer

If Faisal is telling the truth and Asia Bibi, the Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemy and held on death row for eight years, hasn’t actually left the country, then it is likely that the Pakistani authorities are going to give her up as a sacrifice to the Islamic groups that are baying for her blood, so as to appease and calm them. If Faisal is lying, and she has actually left the country, he may be trying to calm those Islamic groups by giving them the impression that Asia Bibi is still quarry they can catch, while in reality she is out of their reach. This would allow the government to save face and not be blamed for her having escaped.

“No truth in reports of Aasia Bibi leaving Pakistan: Foreign Office,” by Naveed Siddiqui, Dawn, November 8, 2018 (thanks to Phil):

Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Thursday denied reports that Aasia Bibi had left Pakistan, saying the recently acquitted Christian woman was still in the country.

“There is no truth in reports of her leaving the country — it is fake news,” Dr Faisal told DawnNewsTV. Aasia Bibi was released from Multan jail last night — a little over a week after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction and death sentence.

Shortly after the FO’s clarification, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry called out the “irresponsible” behaviour of some media outlets for running the news of Aasia Bibi allegedly leaving the country without “confirmation”.

“It has become a norm to publish fake news for sake of headlines,” Chaudhry said on Twitter. “#AsiaBibi case is sensitive issue; it was extremely irresponsible to publish news of her leaving the country without confirmation. I strongly urge section of media to act responsible.”

The statements by FO and Chaudhry come on the heels of news reports from a day earlier which stated that Aasia Bibi had left Multan’s women prison and was being flown to an “unknown destination”. This particular quote, attributed to Aasia Bibi’s lawyer Saiful Malook, led to speculation that she had left the country.

However, reliable sources on Wednesday night had confirmed to Dawn that Aasia Bibi was brought to Islamabad onboard a special aircraft.

The aircraft carrying Aasia Bibi landed at the old Benazir Bhutto International Airport of Islamabad adjacent to Nur Khan Air Base, said sources. From there, she was taken to an undisclosed place in Islamabad amid tight security. The authorities are keeping her movement and whereabouts secret for security reasons.

Aasia Bibi’s acquittal had sparked countrywide protests by religious parties and groups. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) is expected to hold a ‘million march’ in Karachi against the Supreme Court’s verdict today.

Dr Faisal, during a press briefing at noon on Thursday, reiterated that Aasia Bibi was in Pakistan and “in a safe place”. “The media should verify such news [before running it].”

“Aasia Bibi is a free citizen. After the court’s verdict, she can go wherever she wants. There is no restriction on the mobility of a free citizen,” said Dr Faisal, adding that only the interior ministry or the law could specify if legally her name could be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL)….

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  1. Crusades Were Right says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    Oh what larks there’ll be in “migrant”-welcoming countries in a couple of generations!

    • J D S says

      Nov 9, 2018 at 1:08 pm

      You can bet your last dollar that she will just “DISAPPEAR” and the Pakis. Will just say she left the country and they know not where she fled to…..shameful!

  2. gravenimage says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    Pakistan: Foreign Office spokesman says “no truth” in reports of Asia Bibi leaving the country — “it is fake news”
    ………………….

    All I can do is hope that it is the above that is the fake news.

    The initial story was reported by the Evening Standard–a British newspaper that has been around since 1827.

  3. Z says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    Why would he say that? If that is true then now those rioters will destroy Pakistan to kill her. She was safer when they thought she was gone!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 10:22 pm

      Maybe not–they may be more murderous if they think the Pakistani government has let their victim go.

      • Baucent says

        Nov 9, 2018 at 2:49 am

        I agree and it could be a ruse. Letting her secretly to leave the country while denying she has left. As a way to keep a lid on the backlash.

  4. a little bit of good news says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 11:35 pm

    According to catholic news she and her family met for the first time in Islamabad, and Italian gov’t has offered to help get her out.

    https://aleteia.org/2018/11/07/italy-offers-to-help-asia-bibi-and-her-family/

  5. IanB says

    Nov 9, 2018 at 5:27 am

    Never assume anything a muslim says is true.

  6. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 9, 2018 at 10:23 am

    Faisal is just trying to smoke out Asia because he does not know where she is, and thus, where to send her assassins.

  7. Westman says

    Nov 9, 2018 at 1:13 pm

    Islam has made Pakistan a pustule in the world, seething with tension between Islamists and government, shaking its nukes at India, and largely ungovernable.

    China is about to discover the reality for themselves when it erupts on their effort to use Pakistan for a transportation route. Regardless of the Pakistan government’s support they will be forced to provide their own security due to the Pakistan military being compromised by Islamists. Pakistan may well turn into China’s “Afghanistan” and be overthrown by Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s Islamists.

    Is this a nation that CAIR would hold up as an example of great potential for American-Islamic Relations? If not then why should America open its arms to uncontrolled future immigration from Pakistan?

    Like Afghanistan before 9/11, the West has no clear view of what is happening in Pakistan. The treatment of Asia Bibi is a symptom of an internal fizzure. The volcano is rumbling.

  8. Green Infidel says

    Nov 11, 2018 at 3:31 am

    How good a record does the Pakistani government have of telling the truth?

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