ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has rejected the biased assertions of US ReligiousFreedom Report.
In a Press Release issued in Islamabad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs saidthe report’s segment on Pakistan is a compendium of unsubstantiated andbiased assertions.
The Ministry said we do not support such national reports makingobservations on the internal affairs of sovereign States.
It said Pakistan has always played a positive role and engaged theinternational community including the United States with a view to havebetter and mutual understanding of the issue of religious freedoms, whichare under stress around the world.
It said Pakistan is of the view that all countries are obliged to promotereligious harmony and have a duty to protect their citizens in accordancewith national laws and international norms.
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The Ministry said a glaring discriminatory aspect of the report is that ithas ignored the systematic persecution of minorities, particularly Muslims,in India, which are subjected to alien domination and foreign occupationsuch as in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
It also said Pakistan has often raised its own concerns internationallyincluding with the Western governments and the US over the growing trend ofIslamophobia in their own countries.
