FO slams US move to keep Pakistan in, India out of religious freedom blacklist

[ASKardar]

Pakistan: Islamabad has categorically rejected the US State Department’s “unilateral and arbitrary” decision of keeping Pakistan in its 2019 annual blacklist for religious freedom violations.

Pakistan was kept in the list for a second year while India was ignored, despite its targeting of Muslims over cow slaughter allegations, occupied Kashmir lockdown and the latest citizenship act on communal lines.

Nine countries, including Pakistan, remained on the State Department’s annual list of “countries of particular concern” for having engaged in or tolerated “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom”. Sudan is the only nation removed from the blacklist.

Pakistan was designated in 2018 after years of US hesitation over concerns on the treatment of minorities. According to the announcement made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Pakistan’s name featured in the list of countries, which are subject to sanctions over religious liberty.

“This pronouncement is not only detached from ground realities of Pakistan but also raises questions about the credibility and transparency of the entire exercise. The designation is reflective of selective targeting of countries, and thus unlikely to be helpful to the professed cause of advancing religious freedom,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday.

It said Pakistan is a multi-religious and pluralistic country where people of all faiths enjoy religious freedom under constitutional protections. All branches — the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary — have made concerted efforts to ensure that all citizens of Pakistan, irrespective of faith, denomination, caste or creed, can profess and practice their religion in full freedom. The higher judiciary of the country has given landmark judgments directing on ensuring the sanctity and security of places of worship of minorities, it added

SOURCE: http://gnnhd.tv/index.php/Pakistan/12679-1577127600

 

[jupiter2007]

Double standard of USA.

 

[undercover JIX]

Why fool yourself and expect anything different. Christians, Jews and Hindus all are one against Muslims....Roshan Khayals and brainwashed by the same will keep having soft spot for these open enemies and keep destroying Pakistan and Muslim world at large.

 

[Rollno21]

Why fool yourself and expect anything different. Christians, Jews and Hindus all are one against Muslims....Roshan Khayals and brainwashed by the same will keep having soft spot for these open enemies and keep destroying Pakistan and Muslim world at large.

If you make it Muslims vs non muslisms .you know the end result right

 

[undercover JIX]

If you make it Muslims vs non muslisms .you know the end result right

yes

 

[khail007]

USA is one-eyed freak - could only see Pakistan.

 

[xyxmt]

No one give a fcuk about "US Lists" anymore, they are just as credible as my left nut for moving lawn.

but they really love Chinese Muslims

 

[Jackdaws]

Pakistan may have made some steps towards making lives of its minorities better but it carries a lot of baggage - India is still the country which gives refuge to the likes of Tasleema Nasreen while Pak is the country from where that Christian woman spent years in jail for blasphemy and finally moved to Canada. Some Univ professor apparently has been in jail under the same law.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Spot on bhai sahb

Why fool yourself and expect anything different. Christians, Jews and Hindus all are one against Muslims....Roshan Khayals and brainwashed by the same will keep having soft spot for these open enemies and keep destroying Pakistan and Muslim world at large.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Pakistan may have made some steps towards making lives of its minorities better but it carries a lot of baggage - India is still the country which gives refuge to the likes of Tasleema Nasreen while Pak is the country from where that Christian woman spent years in jail for blasphemy and finally moved to Canada. Some Univ professor apparently has been in jail under the same law.

We should lynch them on the spot like India does.

 

[War Thunder]

Why fool yourself and expect anything different. Christians, Jews and Hindus all are one against Muslims....Roshan Khayals and brainwashed by the same will keep having soft spot for these open enemies and keep destroying Pakistan and Muslim world at large.

Roshan Khyal?

You mean the sheep who have no clue on what goes in the world and whose sources of information are always official media?

 

[Jackdaws]

We should lynch them on the spot like India does.

Indian judiciary doesn't do that. There have been lynchings in Pakistan also.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Indian judiciary doesn't do that. There have been lynchings in Pakistan also.

In the last 10 to fifteen years where have been lynchings??? And no person has been executed by Judiciary on blasmephy. Even the recent one will be acquitted after it reaches higher courts.

 

[IceCold]

Pakistan may have made some steps towards making lives of its minorities better but it carries a lot of baggage - India is still the country which gives refuge to the likes of Tasleema Nasreen while Pak is the country from where that Christian woman spent years in jail for blasphemy and finally moved to Canada. Some Univ professor apparently has been in jail under the same law.

That professor is a Muslim by the way so does not fall in the rant of mistreatment of minorities.

 

[LeGenD]

I am sorry but WE are in no position to accuse others of double standards when WE practice the same.

Pakistan is officially mum about plight of Muslims in China but vocal about plight of Muslims in India. So?

Corporate interests will TRUMP humanity in this increasingly interests-driven selffish world.