ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government struggling with a crisis surrounding Aasia Bibi — a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy charges after eight years on death row — now has to deal with “fake” images on social media purporting to show her leaving the country.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry slammed the postings on Monday, one of which claims to show Bibi meeting Pope Francis. The photo is actually of Bibi’s daughter from two years ago.
Chaudhry says the images misidentifying Bibi prompted death threats to a lawmaker in one photograph.
Radical Islamists have blocked Bibi’s freedom and demanded she be publicly executed. They’ve also filed a petition to repeal her Supreme Court acquittal.
The government says Bibi remains in Pakistan, at a secret location for her own protection, until the review process is finished.
Fake images show acquitted Christian woman leaving Pakistan
Fake images show acquitted Christian woman leaving Pakistan
- The government said Aasia Bibi remains at a secret location in Pakistan
- Radical Islamists have filed a petition to repeal her Supreme Court acquittal
France’s Macron accepts resignation of Louvre museum chief after jewel theft
- Des Cars has faced intense criticism since burglars made off in October with jewels worth an estimated $102m
- Strikes over pay and conditions since December have also led to regular closures
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation on Tuesday of the head of Paris’ Louvre museum, which has been grappling with the fallout from a high-profile jewel heist and rolling strikes.
Laurence des Cars tendered her resignation, which Macron accepted, “praising an act of responsibility at a time when the world’s largest museum needs calm and a strong new impetus to successfully carry out major projects involving security and modernization,” his office said.
Des Cars has faced intense criticism since burglars made off in October with jewels worth an estimated $102 million that are still missing, exposing glaring security gaps at the world’s most-visited museum.
Strikes over pay and conditions since December have also led to regular closures and added to a list of woes that included two water leaks as well as a massive ticket fraud investigation.
Critics including the state auditors’ office have questioned the museum’s low spending on security and infrastructure maintenance while it made lavish purchases of new artwork, only a quarter of which is open to the public, and spent heavily on post-pandemic relaunch projects.
