At last, Asia Bibi is free. Six months after her acquittal on a trumped-up charge of blasphemy, the Pakistani government has confirmed that she has left the country. After nearly a decade behind bars, awaiting execution, she is now in Canada – where last week, for the first time since her imprisonment, she was able to hold her daughters Esha and Eisham in her arms.
But the story of anti-Christian persecution goes on: and it poses questions for Pakistan, as well as the international community – perhaps especially Britain, which failed Asia Bibi and continues to fail beleaguered Christians around the world.
