ISLAMABAD: The family of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who faces becoming the first person to be executed for blasphemy in Pakistan, Saturday said they hoped the Supreme Court would free her. But in any case they feared for their future while living in the country. “We are hopeful that whatever the court proceedings are it will come out as positive for us,” her husband Ashiq Mesih said. “I will be very happy the day my mother will be released. I will hug her and will cry meeting her and will thank God that he has got her released,” her daughter Eisham Ashiq said. Bibi’s family is in London on a visit organised by Aid to the Church in Need, a charity which helps repressed and persecuted Christians. Bibi, a labourer, was accused of blasphemy in 2009 by Muslim women she was working with in a field. Her family said if Bibi is released, it would be difficult to stay in Pakistan. “Pakistan is ours: we were born there, raised there,” Ashiq said. “Living in Pakistan for us is very difficult. We don’t go out of our home and if we go, we come out very carefully.” Published in Daily Times, October 14th 2018.