Blasphemy

Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It''s exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, drinks some more and then offers it to another woman.

Suddenly one of her fellow workers cries o...