USCIRF asks Biden to impose sanctions on Pak over persecution of minorities
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New Delhi, April 22 : The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has asked the Biden administration to impose targeted sanctions on Pakistani government agencies and officials responsible for severe violations of religious freedom.
In its annual report released on Wednesday, the Washington-based commission redesignated Pakistan as a country of particular concern (CPC), for engaging in systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom of minorities.
The USCIRF has recommended to the US government to freeze certain Pakistani individuals assets and/or barring their entry into the US under human rights-related financial and visa authorities, citing specific religious freedom violations.
Religious freedom conditions in Pakistan continued to worsen.
There was a sharp rise in targeted killings, blasphemy cases, forced conversions, and hate speech targeting religious minorities.
In 2020, there reportedly were 30 Christians, including seven on death row, jailed in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy, said the report.
Washington: Religious freedom conditions in Pakistan continue to worsen as the government systematically enforced blasphemy and anti-Ahmadiyya laws, according to a report released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The USCIRF on Wednesday (April 21) released its 2021 Annual Report documenting developments during 2020. Religious freedom conditions in Pakistan continued to worsen. The government systematically enforced blasphemy and anti-Ahmadiyya laws and failed to protect religious minorities from abuses by non-state actors.
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