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Pakistan rejects US report on ‘forced conversions of non-Muslims’

Pakistan rejects US report on ‘forced conversions of non-Muslims’

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistan has rejected the recent US report on religious freedom violations in the country, terming it “unsubstantiated” and “biased”. According to the report issued by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), religious freedom conditions in Pakistan “generally trended negative” in 2018.

“During the year, extremist groups and societal actors continued to discriminate against and attack religious minorities, including Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Ahmadis, and Shi’a Muslims,” the report said.

The report’s findings revealed that the government of Pakistan failed to “adequately protect these groups, and it perpetrated systematic, ongoing, egregious religious freedom violations”.

The report further said that abusive enforcement of the country’s strict blasphemy laws continued to result in the “suppression of rights for non-Muslims, Shi’a Muslims, and Ahmadis…Forced conversions of non-Muslims continued despite the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act, which recognises Hindu family law”.

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