'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...
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Government respond to questions about Pakistan plans to ratify the Refugee Convention, and to provide assistance to Hazaras from Afghanistan.
Government respond to questions about Pakistan plans to ratify the Refugee Convention, and to provide assistance to Hazaras from Afghanistan. Lord Alton of Liverpool - To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Pakistan...
In a perceptive analysis GATESTONE INSTITUTE describes why Imran Khan has been bowled out by opponents in Pakistan and how his pro Putin move became the diplomatic equivalent of a cricketing googly.
Imran Khan: A Collateral Victim of Putin GATESTONE INSTITUTE Amir Taheri April 17, 2022 The past four years, however, depict Khan's premiership as a tale of faux-pas and broken promises. He tried to use Pakistan's powerful military elite as a support base against real...
UK Government’s Positive Welcome of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Pakistani Minorities report on Abductions, Forced Conversions, and Forced Marriages of Religious Minority Women and Girls in Pakistan.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5690): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the...
U.K. Minister responds to attacks on Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon- U.K. Minister responds to attacks on Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. Lord Alton of Liverpool House of LordsLondonSW1A 0PW 6 December 2021 Dear David, Thank you for your correspondence of 2, 4 and 17 September sharing reporting of a...
Statement from CLAAS about the Sri Lankan factory manager killed in Pakistan after being beaten to death and set on fire by a mob over alleged blasphemy. Prime Minister Imran Khan has described it as a “horrific vigilante attack”.
Sri Lankan factory manager killed in Pakistan over blasphemy allegations The incident which took place in Sialkot, was described by Prime Minister Imran Khan as a “horrific vigilante attack”. He said those responsible would be punished with the full force of...
HE Mohammad Sarwar, Governor of the Punjab, and Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the UK, visited the House of Lords and met members of the All Party group on Pakistan Minorities. The APPG was grateful to Governor Sarwar for his promise to help Maria Shabaz – the 14 year old girl tortured, raped, forcibly converted, forcibly married and now in hiding
. I was very pleased to welcome HE Mohammad Sarwar, Governor of the Punjab, with Pakistan's High Commissioner to the UK, to the House of Lords. Grateful for his promise to help Maria Shabaz - 14 year old girl tortured, raped, forcibly converted, forcibly married and...
Pakistan: UN human rights experts today urgently appealed to Pakistan to release Stephen Masih, from Sialkot District, detained for over two years awaiting trial for allegedly committing blasphemy.
Pakistan: Christian on blasphemy charges must be freed – UN experts GENEVA (21 October 2021) ̶ UN human rights experts* today urgently appealed to Pakistan to release Stephen Masih, a Pakistani Christian from Sialkot District, who has been detained for over two...
Minister replies following the desecration of an Ahmadi Mosque in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of WimbledonMinister of State for South Asia and the CommonwealthPrime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in ConflictKing Charles Street LondonSW1A 2AH Dear David, Thank you for your email of 4 August following the...
Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s, former ambassador to the United States, says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” .
Three thoughtful essays on Afghanistan by Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States. He says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” perpetuating dysfunction at home and locking it into a...
UK Minister for South Asia Raises The Forced Marriage and Conversion of Girls In Pakistan with Prime Minister Imran Khan and Other Senior Ministers and Says Pakistan Is A Human Rights Priority Country. He also raised religious persecution, gender based violence and modern slavery.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of WimbledonMinister of State for South Asia andthe CommonwealthPrime Minister’s SpecialRepresentative on Preventing SexualViolence in ConflictKing Charles StreetLondonSW1A 2AHThe Lord Alton of LiverpoolHouse of LordsLondonSW1A 0PW3 August 2021 Dear...
POLICE DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS DESECRATE ANOTHER AHMADIYYA MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN. The U.K. Government has been asked whether it has raised these reports with the Pakistan government and, if so, what response it received.
Since the beginning of 2021, there have been disturbing reports about the desecration of Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan - seemingly carried out under the supervision of local police. The latest report details the destruction and demolition of an Ahmadiyya Mosque in a...
POLICE DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS DESECRATE ANOTHER AHMADIYYA MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN. The U.K. Government has been asked whether it has raised these reports with the Pakistan government and, if so, what response it received.
Since the beginning of 2021, there have been disturbing reports about the desecration of Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan - seemingly carried out under the supervision of local police. The latest report details the destruction and demolition of an Ahmadiyya Mosque in a...
POLICE DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS DESECRATE ANOTHER AHMADIYYA MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN. The U.K. Government has been asked whether it has raised these reports with the Pakistan government and, if so, what response it received.
Since the beginning of 2021, there have been disturbing reports about the desecration of Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan - seemingly carried out under the supervision of local police. The latest report details the destruction and demolition of an Ahmadiyya Mosque in a...
Forced conversion of minor girls in Pakistan: The Government of Pakistan should not look away from a cruel practice which destroys young lives and does huge damage to the reputation of a great country. The Government should implement the recommendations of the Senate Committee on Minority Rights, setting the minimum age for voluntary religious conversion at 18 years, in accordance with the international norms and standards. And they should do it as a matter of urgency.
Forced conversion of minor girls in Pakistan During a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Commission for the rights of minorities in the Pakistan Senate, the Minister for Religious Affairs, Noorul Haq Qadri, said he does not support a restriction on religious...
Minister confirms that they will engage with religious scholars and academics to offer counter-radicalising narratives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL1591): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support...
The Government responded today to representations they have received about the case of Maria Shahbaz, who was abducted in Pakistan in April 2020 and what steps they intend to take in response to the petition and letter to the Prime Minister asking that she be granted asylum in the UK.
Baroness Williams of Trafford, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL1590): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have received about the case of Maria...
The Way Forward in Afghanistan – the US should take heed and listen to the wise advice of Husain Haqqani who was Pakistan’s distinguished ambassador to the United States from 2008-11. We all have an interest in preserving the Afghan Republic and preventing a return to Taliban control.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/560683-the-way-forward-in-afghanistan?rnd=1624974582 The Way Forward in Afghanistan By Husain Haqqani June 29, 2021 Recent reports of Taliban winning control of several previously contested...
UK Government says it remains deeply concerned by reports of discrimination and violence against religious communities in Pakistan, including against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community
UK Government says it remains deeply concerned by reports of discrimination and violence against religious communities in Pakistan, including against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided...
Why cases like that of 13 year old Nayab Gill – forcibly married and converted in Pakistan- have led to the EU threatening to renegotiate it’s trade deals due to Pakistan’s human rights record.
The EU has recently been putting a lot of pressure on Pakistan and is threatening to renegotiate it’s trade deals due to Pakistan’s human rights record. The EU is concerned about cases like that of Nayab Gill, a 13 year old girl from a Christian minority family. She...
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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