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Two Pakistani women get death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ murder of teacher

Pakistan has been hit by a spate of high-profile blasphemy cases in recent weeks [File: Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]

Two Pakistani women have been sentenced to death for murdering their religious school teacher who they accused of committing blasphemy, police said.

A district judge on Wednesday handed down the death penalty to two and a life sentence to one upon proving their involvement in the murder of Safoora Bibi in Dera Ismail Khan city in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in March 2022.

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