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September 4, 2017
Pakistan deeply concerned over killing, displacement of Rohingya Muslims
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed its deep concerned over reports of growing number of deaths and forced displacement of Rohingya Muslims.
In the statement issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan has urged authorities in Myanmar to investigate reports of massacre, hold those involved accountable and take necessary measures to protect the rights of Rohingya Muslims.
The statement says such reports, if confirmed, are a source of ‘serious concern and anguish’.
“In line with its consistent position on protecting the rights of Muslim minorities worldwide, Pakistan will work with the international community in particular the OIC to express solidarity with the Rohingya Muslims and to work towards safeguarding their rights,” it further reads.
More than 73,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh in the last 10 days desperately trying to escape spiralling communal violence in Myanmar´s Rakhine state and bringing with them harrowing tales of rape and murder at the hands of the military and Buddhist mobs.
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday.
The clashes and army crackdown have killed nearly 400 people.
The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries. Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya, more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/2...over-killing-displacement-of-Rohingya-Muslims
PTI submits adjournment motion in NA over Rohingya crisis
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly over the Rohingya crisis.
The motion submitted by PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Arif Alvi, Asad Umar, Shafqat Mehmood demanded that the assembly should immediately raise the issue of persecution of Rohingya Muslims. The PTI leaders have also stated that houses have been torched in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's Rakhine region.
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It said that due to the sensitivity of the issue, a national policy on Rohingya crisis must be developed after an extensive discussion in the Lower House of Parliament.
Meanwhile, nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya escape Myanmar violence as humanitarian crisis looms
The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people.
Rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army aims to force them out.
The treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.
The number of those crossing the border, 87,000, surpassed the total of Rohingya who escaped Myanmar after a much smaller insurgent attack in October that set off a military operation beset by accusations of serious human rights abuses.
https://www.geo.tv/latest/156497-pti-submits-adjournment-motion-in-na-over-rohingya-crisis
More and more countries need to put diplomatic pressure on Myanmar.
