Pakistan outrightly rejects U.S. report on religious freedom
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The US has been using Human Rights, Democracy, Freedom of Expression, and Religious Freedom as a weapon to counter its rivals. Whereas, its own record of violations of human rights, freedom of expression, religious freedom, and democracy are well-know to the rest of world. China has exposed the truth of American hyporcay. It is time to unite for victims of America on one platform and undo American coercion.
Pakistan has outrightly rejected the U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom, saying that unilateral reports assessing other countries’ human rights situations are not free from political bias and present an incomplete and distorted picture.
The methodology adopted in preparing these reports and the mandate and expertise of its authors are not transparent, spokesperson for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said here on Thursday during a weekly media briefing.
Releasing the 2023 International Religious Freedom Report last week, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken referred to the blasphemy laws in Pakistan as something that “help foster a climate of intolerance and hatred that can lead to vigilantes and mob violence.”
Pakistan “categorically” rejects the baseless assertions, Baloch said.
“We believe that international religious freedom cannot be viewed from the lens of any single country’s social and legal perspective,” said the spokesperson.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
