Originally Posted by
ExPatPaki
Not directly, but definitely indirectly. The blasphemy law in Pakistan didn't really begin to be enforced and have a death sentence added to it, till the 1980s, when Zia ul Haq, a US supported military dictator who came to power through a US-sponsored coup. His predecessor, Zulfiqar Bhutto (Benazir Bhutto's father), was hanged. Henry Kissinger reportedly told Zulfiqar Bhutto that "we will make an example out of you"; since he encouraged Arab leaders to use their oil as an economic weapon against the US for supporting Israel. Then shit got real fucked in Pakistan due to the war in Afghanistan and increase in Islamic extremism. You cannot deny that the US supported Islamic militancy and extremism with Pakistan's ISI which in turn led to these types of laws in Pakistan, with the regular person in Pakistan going towards such extremism as well. Over the course of at least 3 decades, this type of extremism will be difficult to reverse, and I believe a change in US foreign policy towards Pakistan, which has to be a complete non-interventionist stance, will lead to gradual change. This isn't going to happen overnight.
US officials still meet and discuss issues with Pakistan's extremist and uneducated religious leaders. Do you think they talk about Aasiya Bibi or how to get NATO supply routes re-opened?