Pakistan has rejected the current US file on non-secular freedom violations in the you. S ., terming it “unsubstantiated” and “biased”.
According to the document issued by way of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), spiritual freedom situations in Pakistan “normally trended badly” in 2018.
“During the yr, extremist companies and societal actors persevered to discriminate against and assault non-secular minorities, which includes Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Ahmadis, and Shi’a Muslims,” the document said.
The record’s findings found out that the government of Pakistan failed to “thoroughly guard these corporations, and it perpetrated systematic, ongoing, egregious non-secular freedom violations”.
The file in addition stated that abusive enforcement of the united states’ strict blasphemy legal guidelines persisted in resulting in the “suppression of rights for non-Muslims, Shi’a Muslims, and Ahmadis…Forced conversions of non-Muslims persisted despite the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act, which recognises the Hindu circle of relatives regulation”.
Based on those, in particular, extreme violations, USCIRF again unearths in 2019 that Pakistan should be targeted as a “united states of a specific subject,” or CPC, under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), America Commission encouraged.
However, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry has brushed off the document.
“The report’s section on Pakistan is a compendium of unsubstantiated and biased assertions. As a matter of precept, Pakistan does no longer aid such countrywide reports making observations on the internal affairs of sovereign States. Pakistan, consequently, rejects these observations,” Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a statement on Friday.
“Pakistan is of the view that every one international location are obliged to sell non-secular concord and feature a duty to protect their citizens according to with national legal guidelines and global norms,” it added.
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Three humans, which includes two women, have been murdered while lightning struck them at one-of-a-kind locations in Gumla district, police said on Saturday.
A 14-year-antique lady, Akhtar Khatoon, Jaimuni Devi (20) and Arvind Pandey (17) have been killed while thunderbolt hit them at Tagore Toli village, Kemet village and Siso More vicinity of the district on Friday nighttime during heavy rains, the police said.
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