“Provincial textbooks with discriminatory content against minorities remain a significant concern. Reports also continue of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls and women.
Source/Credit: The Indian Panorama
By Panorama | August 19, 2017
Commission slammed both India and Pakistan for religious intolerance in its 2017 annual report
WASHINGTON: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), that researches and monitors international religious freedom issues, in its latest report has suggested that the US State Department should immediately designate Pakistan as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).
USCIRF’s 2017 annual report which was released on Aug 15, slammed Pakistani government as they ‘continued to perpetrate and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations.’
“During the past year, the Pakistani government continued to perpetrate and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations. Religiously discriminatory constitutional provisions and legislation, such as the country’s blasphemy and anti-Ahmadiyya laws, continue to result in prosecutions and imprisonments. At least 40 individuals have been sentenced to death or are serving life sentences for blasphemy, including two Christians who received death sentences in June 2016”, said the report.
The report also mentioned the atrocities against minorities.
“Provincial textbooks with discriminatory content against minorities remain a significant concern. Reports also continue of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls and women, although the Pakistani government took some positive steps on this issue and made other encouraging gestures toward religious minorities”, it pointed out.
“Based on these violations, USCIRF again finds in 2017 that Pakistan merits designation as a “country of particular concern,” or
CPC, under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), as it has found since 2002. Designating Pakistan as a CPC would enable the United States to more effectively press Islamabad to undertake needed reforms. Despite USCIRF’s longstanding recommendation, the State Department has never designated Pakistan as a CPC”, it further added.
In its list recommendations, the USCIRF said that the State Department should designate Pakistan as a CPC under IRFA.
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