Pakistan Supreme Court today postponed the hearing of Christian woman Asia Bibi's appeal to overturn her death sentence in an infamous 2010 blasphemy case after one of the judges stepped down.
Bibi, a mother of five from Nankana area of Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2009 and has been on death row since 2010.
Her death sentence was upheld by the lahore High Court in 2014 following which she lodged an appeal in the apex court.
A three-member bench of Supreme Court was set to start the hearing but Justice Iqbal Hamid-ur-Rehman, one of the judges, recused on the grounds that he also heard the case of slain Punjab liberal governor Salman Taseer.
He said that he already asked the chief justice to appoint another judge to the bench. It is unclear when the hearing will resume.