Pakistan giving blind eye toward atrocities on minorities: Report

A month back, Pakistan raised objections against the Bill that was meant to protect the rights of minorities in Pakistan. Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony raised several objections to the Bill that was drafted by the Federal Ministry of Human Rights. The Bill was presented back in October 2021, during the Parliamentary Committee’s meeting, whose agenda was to protect minorities from forced conversions. Chairperson Senator Liaqat Khan Tarakai had dismissed the draft of The Prohibition of Forced Conversions Act 2021 (the Bill) without even giving it a hearing. Not that the lawmakers were so callous in the past. Earlier this week, the families of missing Baloch people held a protest in Pakistan’s Karachi against the increasing wave of enforced disappearances of Baloch children, women and youth. The families of missing Baloch people have called for the intervention of the United Nations and other international communities so that action is taken in the interest of justice. The barbaric practice of abducting young girls, raping them, and converting them to Islam has become a common practice in “democratic” Pakistan where the state refuses to intervene, reported Just Earth News (JEN). Just Earth News (JEN) is a humanitarian news portal run by a group of journalists from various parts of the world. It focuses on geopolitics, governance and aspects of health, environment, human rights, development, women and gender, economy, etc. Their aim is to highlight issues that are related to lives and livelihood.