«Pakistan has set the standard for intolerance when it comes to
misusing blasphemy laws, but sending a schoolboy to jail for something he scribbled on an exam paper is truly appalling,» Bede Sheppard, senior children's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Wednesday.
A Wall Street Journal op - ed notes how Pakistan's
blasphemy laws, «almost as a matter of routine, are
misused to settle personal scores.»