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CSW CALLS FOR INCREASED PROTECTIONS OF PAKISTANIS AFTER SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK
1 February 2023 PAKISTAN: CSW CALLS FOR INCREASED PROTECTIONS OF PAKISTANIS AFTER SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK CSW has called for increased protections for Pakistani citizens following a terrorist attack on a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, on 30 January....
UK Minister comments on the demolition of homes in Nawaz Sharif Colony, Islamabad, Pakistan, without warning to residents and leaving 200 families homeless: “We are aware that the area of homes destroyed was a predominantly Christian community. We continue to urge Pakistan to guarantee the fundamental rights of all citizens in Pakistan, including religious minorities.”
UK Minister comments on the demolition of homes in Nawaz Sharif Colony, Islamabad, Pakistan, without warning to residents and leaving 200 families homeless: "We are aware that the area of homes destroyed was a predominantly Christian community. We continue to urge...
GRAVES OF AHMADIS DESECRATED IN ‘MALICIOUS’ ACT OF VANDALISM IN CEMETRY AT PREMKOT, HAFIZABAD PAKISTAN – report from International Human Rights Committee @IHumanRightsC
GRAVES OF AHMADIS DESECRATED IN 'MALICIOUS' ACT OF VANDALISM IN CEMETRY AT PREMKOT, HAFIZABAD PAKISTANIHRC/IR/301122/6 30 November 2022 Ahmadi graves have once again been desecrated and vandalised in a "malicious and senseless" attack by vigilantes’ elements in...
CLAAS reports on demolition of 200 homes of Christian minority in Pakistan- people left homeless.
CLAAS Press Release November 24, 2022 200 Christian families left homeless in Pakistan after houses are bulldozed A large Christian colony in Pakistan has been demolished by contractors working for the government, without any warning to residents. ...
Parliamentary Question on what the U.K. has done to dissuade Pakistan from its recent sale of arms to the Myanmar military.
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2511): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had...
3 million children in need of urgent and critical support – Pakistan
Called for priority to be given to the critical needs of 3 million children in need of urgent and critical support and asked about the dangerous situation in Sindh Province, Pakistan, with the danger posed by the breaching of Lake Manchar. 7th September 2022House of...
International Human Rights Committee record yet another brutal murder of an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan as Naseer Ahmad was savagely stabbed to death at the main bus stop in Rabwah
International Human Rights Committee record yet another brutal murder of an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan as Naseer Ahmad was savagely stabbed to death at the main bus stop in Rabwah INCIDENT BRIEFANOTHER AHMADI MUSLIM SAVAGELY MURDERED IN RABWAH IN THE NAME OF RELIGIONIt...
National Minorities Day Pakistan – 2022 Jinnah Award Winner, Saif-ul-Malook, Advocate
2022 Jinnah Award Winner, Saif-ul-Malook, Advocate National Minorities Day Pakistan, Jinnah Award Winner, Saif-ul-Malook Advocate 11 August 2022 Jinnah Award Winner By The APPG for Pakistani Minorities Press Release Winner of the Jinnah Award London, 11 August...
The Folly of Pakistan’s China Gamble, Why Relying on Beijing Is a Bad Bet. Important op ed published in Foreign Affairs by Husain Haqqani, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Hudson Institute’s Director, South & Central Asia, and Javid Ahmad, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and former Afghanistan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Link to full article:
The Folly of Pakistan’s China Gamble, Why Relying on Beijing Is a Bad Bet. Important op ed published in Foreign Affairs by Husain Haqqani, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Hudson Institute’s Director, South & Central Asia, and Javid Ahmad.Senior...
The Folly of Pakistan’s China Gamble, Why Relying on Beijing Is a Bad Bet. Important op ed published in Foreign Affairs by Husain Haqqani, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Hudson Institute’s Director, South & Central Asia, and Javid Ahmad, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and former Afghanistan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Link to full article:
The Folly of Pakistan’s China Gamble, Why Relying on Beijing Is a Bad Bet. Important op ed published in Foreign Affairs by Husain Haqqani, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Hudson Institute’s Director, South & Central Asia, and Javid Ahmad.Senior...
PAKISTAN: CSW JOINS CALLS FOR RELEASE OF DETAINED MEMBERS OF THE AHMADI COMMUNITY
PAKISTAN: CSW JOINS CALLS FOR RELEASE OF DETAINED MEMBERS OF THE AHMADI COMMUNITY In a statement today CSW has joined calls for the release of 13 members of the Ahmadiyya community arrested over a period of several days during celebrations of the religious holiday...
Minister responds to the plight of Ashfaq Masih, who has been convicted in Pakistan of blasphemy and has received the death penalty. Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon describes this as a “deeply troubling case”.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of WimbledonMinister of State for South and Central Asia, North Africa, UN and the CommonwealthPrime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in ConflictKing Charles Street LondonSW1A 2AH 29 July 2022 The Lord Alton of...
International Human Rights Committee report FOURTH INCIDENT IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF VIOLENT DESECRATION OF AHMADI GRAVES IN GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN
Statement from International Human Rights Committee who report the FOURTH INCIDENT IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF VIOLENT DESECRATION OF AHMADI GRAVES IN GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN It is revolting to let the world know that the government and the police force in Pakistan have...
Some links to interventions during the London Ministerial on Freedom of Religion or Belief – including events on Pakistan Minorities, Yazidis, Genocide, Uyghurs, Ahmadis, Hazaras, Blasphemy Laws, and why Article 18 is of fundamental importance to security, prosperity, human rights, flourishing and freedom
Some links to interventions during the London Ministerial on Freedom of Religion or Belief As The World Looks Away – The Targeting of the Hazara in Afghanistan and Pakistan London Ministerial side event on the situation of the Hazara . Background:...
As The World Looks Away – The Targeting of the Hazara in Afghanistan and Pakistan
London Ministerial on freedom of religion or belief- side event on the situation of the Hazara held on July 6th As The World Looks Away - The Targeting of the Hazara in Afghanistan and Pakistan 5:00 - 6:00 PM BST on 6th July 2022Parliament, Committee Room 1 As...
The Right to Education and Pakistan Minorities – side event at the U.K. Ministerial on Religious Freedom – July 6th 2022
Right to Education and Pakistani Minorities Meeting on 5 July 2022 12:30-13:30 Role of the UK Aid - Lord Alton Speech by Lord Alton Background 1. Education is a fundamental right of every child, and it should be provided without any discrimination or bias....
On World Refugee Day UK Minister Tariq Ahmad answered my question on how many evacuations and resettlements from Afghanistan to the UK have occurred; how many people are awaiting resettlement in camps in Pakistan and Iran; how many of these people are from at-risk minority groups; and what permanent resettlement assistance is being provided by other countries, including those in the Gulf and Central Asia.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL600): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool;To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Ahmad of...
Government quizzed about what representations they have made to the government of Pakistan about the report Unequal Citizens – Ending Systematic Discrimination Against Minorities, published by the National Commission on Human Rights in May 2022; and what steps they are taking to prevent the practices analysed in the publication. Reply fails to say how our massive aid programme to Pakistan will be used to address this rank discrimination
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL563): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the...
National Commission for Human Rights Pakistan Report
'Unequal Citizens -Ending Systematic Discrimination Against Minorities' - new report just published by the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) Pakistan. https://www.nchr.gov.pk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Minority-Report-compressed.pdf The NCHR report...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
British universities and Chinese money
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...
2024 Hong Kong Symposium: British Hong Kongers are the Advance Guard In the Battle Between Dictatorship and Democracy.
Giving the Closing address at this year's 3-day Hong Kong Symposium David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) thanked Finn Lau, the Chair of the Symposium and the Steering committee for organising such a well attended and successful event. Lord Alton described the British...