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Calls to release Pakistan 'blasphemy' schoolboy

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The Pakistani government is being urged to free a schoolboy arrested for blasphemy after he allegedly wrote derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad on an exam paper.

Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool outlines the details of the case.


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