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Pakistan got its way in Afghanistan. Now what?

The victory of its friends in the Taliban may exacerbate Pakistan’s economic and diplomatic problems

|DELHI AND ISLAMABAD

UNTIL 2013 Salma Tanveer ran a private school in a suburb of Lahore, Pakistan’s second biggest city. She and her husband, a civil engineer, were pious Muslims who had travelled to Mecca six times. Then things went wrong. The preacher in a local mosque accused her of blasphemy, claiming she had suggested that Muhammad might not have been the last prophet. On September 27th a lower court in the city pronounced its verdict. Ms Tanveer is to be fined 50,000 rupees ($290), and also “hanged by her neck until death”.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Now what?”

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