Actress Sentenced To 26years Over TV Scences.

A Pakistani court disliked a segment on a TV show so much that it sentenced a Bollywood actress, her husband, and two others to prison for 26 years for blasphemy.

The trouble began when Veena Malik and her new husband appeared on a live daytime show on Geo TV in May. Accounts differ about exactly what transpired, but they apparently re-enacted their wedding ceremony "while a group of Sufi musicians sang a devotional song about the wedding of the Prophet Mohammad's daughter," .

Some viewers saw it as blasphemous, and the station apologized.

But that wasn't enough to appease an anti-terrorism court in Gilgit-Baltisan, which sentenced the couple, the station's owner, and the host of the show to the lengthy prison terms.

"Twenty-six years! Come on," says Malik, 30. "Twenty-six years is a lifetime." She adds, however, that she fully expects higher courts to overturn the verdict. The judge also issued arrest warrants, but all four are reportedly out of the country.