ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rejected US Religious Freedom Report, Foreign office spoke person said it is biased the different faiths are living together in the country and their rights are guaranteed under the Constitution.
Dr Mohammad Faisal said i that the US report on Pakistan was “a compendium of unsubstantiated and biased assertions”.
“We do not support such national reports making observations on the internal affairs of sovereign States
Pakistan has always played a positive role and engaged the international community including the United States with a view to have better and mutual understanding of the issue of religious freedoms, which are under stress around the world.,” said the statement;
Pakistan said a glaring discriminatory aspect of the report is that it has ignored the systematic persecution of minorities, particularly Muslims, in India, which are subjected to alien domination and foreign occupation such as in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that Pakistan, which is a multi-religious, multi-cultural society, had always played a positive role and engaged the international community, including the US with a view to have better and mutual understanding of the issue of religious freedoms, which were under stress around the world.
Pakistan often raised its own concerns internationally, including with the western governments and the US over the growing trend of Islamophobia in their own countries, said the FO spokesperson. “At the United Nations, OIC and other platforms, Pakistan will continue to be part of global efforts to combat religious intolerance, discrimination based on religion and belief and Islamophobia.”
