The Verdict

"This novel is more serious. It’s about a Christian boy who is framed. I don’t remember who he’s framed by, but he’s framed for writing on a mosque wall. A human rights lawyer tries to defend him. Towards the end, he says that the child is uneducated, so he couldn’t have written on the wall, so he’s being framed for something he hasn’t done. It talks about minority rights; it talks about the law; it talks about how things can be mangled in Pakistan sometimes. It also has a slight love story angle to it because the lawyer has a love interest and she’s also a lawyer and she’s helping him out. I really like what Haneef has done with this fiction story, and this is, I think, also loosely based on true events."