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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lucinda Cameron

Yousaf ‘definitely’ was at meeting on day of same-sex marriage vote

PA Wire

Scotland’s First Minister has said he “definitely” attended a meeting about a man on death row in Pakistan the day of Scotland’s same-sex marriage vote after a newspaper suggested there was no record of it.

During the SNP leadership contest earlier this year Mr Yousaf said he missed the vote in 2014 because of an “unavoidable” meeting with the Pakistan Consul General in Glasgow to discuss the case of Mohammad Asghar, who was placed on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy before being released.

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