“Pakistan’s religious minorities have submitted a 10-point memorandum asking Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government to adopt policies to safeguard the rights of minorities and women.”
Pakistan is a state sponsor of jihad terror and has no interest in the human rights of religious minorities and women. The country is grounded in sharia and in its infamous blasphemy laws. As for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, he supports Pakistan’s abusive blasphemy laws that targets Christians, who often suffer from accusations that have no basis. Right after Khan was elected last year, he vowed to take his campaign against blasphemy to the United Nations and commented that “few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such activities.” Khan also pressed the UN and OIC for international restrictions on speech in line with Islamic blasphemy laws.
Yet few in the West are willing to hold Pakistan accountable for its human rights abuses against Christians and other minorities. As for the UN, the UN Human Rights Council includes countries such as Somalia, Nigeria, Qatar, and Pakistan — a slap in the face to human rights. And in 2017, Saudi Arabia was elected to the UN women’s rights commission.
Last year, the Trump administration canceled $300,000,000 in aid to Pakistan because of its jihad terror record. That was a good start.
Hope remains grim for minorities in Pakistan (and other Islamic countries), yet in an era of globalist open-door immigration, these minorities are not prioritized.
“Pakistan’s religious minorities ask government for protection and rights,” by Robin Gomes, Vatican News, August 21, 2019:
Pakistan, where the state religion is Islam, has a population of around 197 million, of which at least 95 percent is Muslim. Hindus make up the largest minority group, followed by Christianity and others.
Among those who signed the memorandum at a press conference in Karachi on Aug. 8 were representatives of the country’s Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Baha’i communities. The initiative was organized by the Italian chapter of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a Catholic charity and foundation that helps persecuted Christians worldwide, and by Catholic advocate Tabassum Yousaf, linked to the Community of Sant’Egidio peace group.
Rights and protection
The joint-resolution asks that the minimum age for marriage of girls be raised from 16 to 18. It calls for the establishment of a federal ministry for religious minorities, a reservation of a 5% quota for national and international educational scholarships for minorities, the protection of minorities’ houses of worship from government seizure and to provide spaces for worship for minority communities in areas such as jails, hospitals and state institutions.The minorities also call for legislation to prevent discrimination against minorities in employment, education and society, the elimination of material that encourage hatred in books, and government subsidies for security at minorities’ schools.
“We intend to focus on issues related to our freedom, our fundamental human rights, prejudices and discrimination that exist in particular towards people of religious minorities and forced conversions of women of religious minorities,” Tabbasum Yousaf told the Vatican’s Fides news agency.
The religious leaders are also asking for government subsidies for security at minorities’ schools.
A specific request touches on the problem of abductions, sexual violence and forced conversions of women belonging to religious minorities, asking for legislation to counteract the phenomenon….