Washington DC: September 8, 2011. (By Ahmar Mustikhan) She expressed her fears that a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, who was sentenced to death, and is now awaiting hearing of the blasphemy case in Pakistan, might get killed in jail. Pamela Constable, a foreign correspondent and former deputy editor of the Washington Post, spoke eloquently at the launch of her new book, PLAYING WITH FIRE: Pakistan at War With Itself at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC Wednesday. “Something happens... Somebody kills them,” Constable said about those who were accused of blasphemy and were killed inside Pakistan jails in the recent past. She regretted the killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer on the belief that he was an “infidel and blasphemer” after he had come out in support of Aasia Bibi and against the blasphemy law. Westerners were dismayed over the reaction that followed Taseer's killing. Many lawyers in Pakistan capital Islamabad took out rallies in support of the alleged killer, Mumtaz Qadri, who has since then become a folk hero in his native Punjab. “That worries me more than al Qaeda.... more than Taliban,” Constable said. Veteran Pakistan investigative journalist Zahid Hussain, who is now a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, told the audience that many people across Pakistan were angry over Taseer's killing but then officially, “Pakistan's interior minister (Rahman Mailk) called him (Taseer) a blasphemer.” Malik, who was a low grade policeman, made millions of dollars through corruption and became a business partner of slain premier, Benazir Bhutto. Constable recalled the killing of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden just next door to Pakistan's West Point – Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul -- and said her gut feeling was some people in the higher echelons of the military and intelligence establishment knew about bin Laden's safe haven. Constable said, “It's the state. It's not a failed state, it is a fake state.” Woodrow Wilson Center's chief Jane Harman also attended the event. However, two Pakistanis with close links with the military generals were conspicuous by their absence at Constable's book launch.