ISLAMABAD:
Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani
Christian woman who was freed from death row by the
Pakistan Supreme Court in a
blasphemy case last year, has left the country and reached
Canada to reunite with her family, according to her lawyer.
The 47-year-old mother of four was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours. She always maintained her innocence, but has spent most of the past eight years in solitary confinement.
“Aasia Bibi has left the country. She is a free person and travelled on her independent will,” a source in the foreign office was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper. Bibi’s counsel Saiful Malook confirmed that she has reached Canada, the Guardian reported. The Supreme Court had on October 31 last year acquitted her of blasphemy charges.