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LAHORE, Pakistan — In a rare development, a high court in Pakistan ordered the government to issue a new identity card reflecting a woman’s conversion from Islam to Christianity.

The woman, whose name is being withheld for security reasons, renounced Islam and married a Christian man 15 years ago.

Attorney Lazar Allah Rakha said that for years she had repeatedly tried to get her faith designation corrected on her national identity record, but officials at the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) defiantly refused. She converted to Christianity in January 2009 and married a Christian man four months later.

“The couple have five children and have resided in South Punjab since they were married,” he said.

After her efforts to get a new identity card failed, th

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