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

[Path-Finder]

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

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

The americans have massacred 10s of millions of innocent people globally since the 1950s. From Korea to Afghanistan. Yet they have the audacity to judge others on being morally correct or not. To hell with them. Glad white Americans are dying out and being replaced by blacks and Hispanics. Long may it continue. I hope they are bred out of existence........

 

[Minho]

Pakistan should form a ministry of rejecting, they have been doing a lot of that lately.

 

[thunderr]

Who gives a flying Jack what USA lists on and off.

 

[SecularNationalist]

I just printed that list on a A4 size paper and wiped my arse with it .

 

[Adonis]

Yes... muslim rule a 1000 years in Europe and India... all the way to outter mongolia

Europe or part of Europe?....Similarly...Muslims came to India in 8th century AD.....first kingdom (Muslim ruler's) came into existence in 12th century (Muhammad of Ghor)....included parts of current Pakistan predominantly...before that there were Muslim invaders who looted and returned....not rulers. Slave dynasty (Turks) was among the first established rulers of subcontinent (12th-13 the century)....So 1000 years of Muslim rule is a bit exaggeration.

 

[PradoTLC]

Pakistan should form a ministry of rejecting, they have been doing a lot of that lately.

we are taking the cue from the indians on this.....