The six countries recommended for listing by USCIRF this year are Central African Republic, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Syria and Vietnam.
Source/Credit: CNS News
By Patrick Goodenough | October 30, 2017
With a deadline approaching for the administration to notify Congress which countries will be blacklisted for religious freedom violations, a small bipartisan group of senators is urging it to break a 15-year-old pattern and designate Pakistan.
The second most-populous Muslim-majority country enforces arguably the world’s most controversial blasphemy laws. But Pakistan is also professedly a U.S. counter-terrorism ally, and both the Bush and Obama administrations repeatedly overruled recommendations to name it as a religious freedom “country of particular concern” (CPC) under U.S. law.
As the Trump administration’s first annual CPC designation notification draws closer, the six senators are calling on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – who visited Islamabad just last week – to change that.
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