A prominent rights group in Pakistan has expressed \u201cconsiderable alarm\u201d over the state of religious freedom in the country. In its report titled A Breach of Faith: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2021-22 released on Tuesday, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said incidents of the country\u2019s religious minorities facing persecution remained consistent between July 2021 and June 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The HRCP report focused on forced conversions, the desecration of places of worship belonging to minorities. It also questioned the standardised national curriculum in parts of Pakistan, which the group said has created an \u201cexclusionary narrative that sidelines Pakistan\u2019s religious minorities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report said that in the year 2021 alone, \u201caround 60 cases of forced conversion were reported in the local media, of which 70 percent were girls under the age of 18\u201d, most of them from the Sindh province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUnless these measures are implemented urgently, Pakistan will continue to foster a climate of impunity for perpetrators of faith-based discrimination and violence, allowing the already-narrow space for religious freedom to shrink even further,\u201d the HRCP said in its statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A prominent rights group in Pakistan has expressed \u201cconsiderable alarm\u201d over the state of religious freedom in the country. In its report titled A Breach of Faith: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2021-22 released on Tuesday, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said incidents of the country\u2019s religious minorities facing persecution remained consistent …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":90518,"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":[31,13],"tags":[3655,3653,3654],"class_list":["post-90517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-hrcp","tag-religious-freedom-in-pakistan","tag-rights-of-minorities"],"yoast_head":"\n