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03/11/2018 GMT

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Asia Bibi has been banned from leaving Pakistan, despite being acquitted of blasphemy

Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi has been banned from leaving Pakistan, despite being acquitted of blasphemy.

Pakistan's authorities have struck a deal with a hard-line Islamist party to end a protest over the acquittal of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy. As part of the deal, proceedings will begin to bar Asia Bibi from leaving the country.

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(Picture: Pakistani activists of the Islamic Jamiat-e-Ittihad ul Ulema party during a protest in Karachi. Credit: RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

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