Blasphemy convict dead

A Christian man serving a life sentence in Pakistan on blasphemy charges has died under mysterious circumstances in Karachi's central jail.

A Christian man serving a life sentence in Pakistan on blasphemy charges has died under mysterious circumstances in Karachi's central jail.

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Officials say that Qamar David, who was convicted of making blasphemous comments against the Koran and the Prophet in a text message to a business rival, died of a heart attack, but his family says that this is unlikely to be true for a fit and healthy man.

"My client was in perfect condition the last time I met him," David's lawyer Pervez Chaudhry told the BBC.