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Bibi, 47, a mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam consecutively with her neighbors. She has always maintained her innocence, but has spent most of the last eight years in solitary confinement.
His lawyer Saiful Malook claimed that he was threatened for life by law sections and that it was difficult for him to exercise in the current situation, said the Express. Tribune.
He said, however, that he would return to Pakistan to represent his client at the hearing of the petition for review if the army provided him with security.
"My family is also facing immense threats to security and the federal government should provide them with security," said Malook.
We did not know immediately where he was going to escape the threats of life and how long he would stay there.
At the same time, the plaintiff in the case, Qari Muhammad Saalam, asked the Supreme Court to hear promptly a petition for review against his acquittal order of Bibi, sentenced for blasphemy in 2009.
Saalam stated that Bibi planned to leave the country and that an application had already been filed for her name to be listed on the Exit Control List (ECL).
In the event that this request for review is not resolved, he stated, the application / motion would suffer irreparable loss and bodily harm.
It is learned that the petition for review, which was filed in the registry of the Supreme Court of Lahore, has been transferred to the register of Islamabad where all the judges sit. A number was also assigned to the petition for review.
The petitioner's legal team is waiting for the petition for review to be scheduled for next week. However, revision petitions are rarely heard in priority.
Several "lacunas and factual legal contradictions" were raised in the petition for revision filed by Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry and Azhar Siddique.
Stressing "excessive delays, flawed investigations and other technicalities" in the petition for revision, the petitioner asked whether they should be an obstacle to justice.
The petitioner asked whether the highest jurisdiction in the country had jurisdiction to overturn a singular fact such as Bibi's confession.
He asked whether the Supreme Court respected the standards of jurisprudence set out in this regard given the historical as well as the Islamic provisions and the principle of normal justice with regard to the application in the laws of the land. blasphemy.
The supreme court ruling, which was issued last Wednesday, sparked protests across Pakistan with protesters led by the Islamic political party Tehreek-i-Labaik Pakistan and other groups blocking roads and roads important in different parts of the country.
Educational institutions have been closed in many parts of the country. Many universities across Pakistan have announced the cancellation of work due to the continuing tension situation.
Mobile phone and Internet services also remained suspended in major cities.
