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A court in Pakistan's Punjab province has sentenced a student to death on the charges of blasphemy over Whatsapp messages, BBC reported on Friday...
The action against the student was taken after a complaint was filed in 2022 by the cybercrime unit of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Lahore..
The lawyers of the two students, however, have said that they have been "trapped in a false case", the BBC reported, adding that the father of the death-row convict will file an appeal in the Lahore High Court...
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