Islambad , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy , the governor of Punjab state told CNN Tuesday . `` What basically he 's made it clear is that she 's not going to be a victim of this law , '' Gov . Salman Taseer told CNN International 's `` Connect the World '' program . `` I mean , he 's a liberal , modern-minded president and he 's not going to see a poor woman like this targeted and executed . ... It 's just not going to happen , '' Taseer said . Asia Bibi , who has been jailed for nearly 15 months , was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country 's controversial blasphemy law by insulting Islam 's Prophet Mohammed , a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment , according to Pakistan 's penal code . She was sentenced to death . She has filed a petition for mercy with the High Court , Taseer said . `` If the High Court suspends the sentence and gives her bail then that is fine . We 'll see that , and if that does n't happen , then the president will pardon her , '' he said . A preliminary investigation showed Bibi was falsely accused , a government official said Monday . `` The president asked me to investigate her case and my preliminary findings show she is innocent and the charges against her are baseless , '' Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti told CNN . Bhatti emphasized Monday that he has reached only preliminary conclusions and will submit a final report Wednesday to Zardari 's office . Prosecutors say Bibi , a 45-year-old field worker , insulted the Prophet Mohammed after she got into a heated argument with Muslim co-workers who refused to drink from a bucket of water she had touched . In a brief news conference at the prison where she 's being held , Bibi said Saturday that the allegations against her are lies fabricated by a group of women who do n't like her . `` We had some differences and this was their way of taking revenge , '' she said . Bibi 's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups , who condemned Pakistan 's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities . CNN 's Luke Henderson and Ravi Agrawal contributed to this report .
The High Court should release Asia Bibi , Punjab 's governor tells CNN . She was sentenced to death for insulting Islam 's Prophet Mohammed . `` She 's not going to be a victim of this law , '' Gov . Salman Taseer said in an interview with CNN`s Anderson Cooper on Monday.