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| Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) (Left) and James McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chairs, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission |
Source/Credit: The Economic Time
By PTI | Nov 15, 2017
Two more US lawmakers today urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over its "systematic and egregious" violations of religious freedom of minorities.
Congressmen Randy Hultgren and James P McGovern, Co- Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, wrote a letter to Tillerson alleging that the Pakistan government engaged in severe repression of religious freedom for several years, and there are no signs that the repression will lessen or end.
"We should be honest with Pakistan about their failings: the Pakistani government's abuses of religious freedom in its own country only serve to discredit it and by extension, its partner, the US in the fight against the Taliban, ISIS, the Haqqani network and other extremist terror groups in the region, they said in the letter.
"Absent pressure from the US in the form of a country of particular concern (CPC) designation, there is little reason to believe that the climate for religious freedom will improve in Pakistan, the two lawmakers wrote.
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