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Pakistan frees girl in blasphemy case

Posted: September 9, 2012 at 5:14 a.m.

A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of Islam’s holy book was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official announced.

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