{"id":5949,"date":"2018-05-31T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5949-banned-terrorist-outfits-targeting-minorities-in-pakistan-us-report\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:27:14","slug":"banned-terrorist-outfits-targeting-minorities-in-pakistan-us-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5949-banned-terrorist-outfits-targeting-minorities-in-pakistan-us-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned terrorist outfits targeting minorities in Pakistan: Us report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banned terrorist outfits are targeting minorities in Pakistan, revealed the annual report of the UnitedStates Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Banned terrorist outfits are targeting minorities in Pakistan, revealed the annual report of the UnitedStates Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cIn 2017, religious minorities in Pakistan, including Shias\u2026continued to face attacks and discrimination from extremist groups and society at large,\u201d the report states, adding that as many as 231 people were killed and 691 injured in such incidents in Pakistan last year.<\/h4>\n<h4>The report states that the government of Pakistan \u201cfailed to protect these groups adequately, and it perpetrated systematic, ongoing, egregious religious freedom violations.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>It was noted that forced conversions of non-Muslims continued despite the passage of the no-Muslim Marriage Act, which grants greater rights in family law for non-Muslims citizens.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe entry of fundamentalist and often extremist, religious parties into the political arena in advance of July 2018 national elections further threatens religious minorities\u2019 already precarious status in the country,\u201d it adds.<\/h4>\n<h4>In December 2017, the State Department named Pakistan as the first, and only country on its \u201cSpecial Watch List,\u201d a new category created by December 2016 amendments to IRFA.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned terrorist outfits are targeting minorities in Pakistan, revealed the annual report of the UnitedStates Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). \u00a0 Banned terrorist outfits are targeting minorities in Pakistan, revealed the annual report of the UnitedStates Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). \u201cIn 2017, religious minorities in Pakistan, including Shias\u2026continued to face attacks and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[473,36,516,126],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-government","tag-pakistan","tag-terrorists","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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