Freed from Pakistani jail, exiled Asia Bibi dreams of home

Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges, spoke Tuesday of trying to make a new life in a strange country and her dreams of returning home.

While safe in Canada, which granted her a one-year stay after she was freed from jail, she has yet to taste true freedom.

"Well, I haven't visited Canada yet. I have stayed at home, mostly... I don't go out much and basically it is because of the cold and the snow," the 48-year-old told AFP in an interview in Paris, speaking in Urdu through an English translator.

Bibi was in France to promote her book "Enfin Libre!" (Finally Free!) co-written with French journalist Anne-Isabelle Tollet.

She does not speak either of Canada's official languages, English or French, and is largely illiterate.

She misses her sisters, brother, father and in-laws back home. But most of all having "four (distinct) seasons, my culture and my food!" Bibi said she was hopeful things would change to allow her and her family --