INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday rejected US Religious Freedom Report, calling it biased in a statement issued by Foreign Ministry .The
statement said the report's segment on Pakistan is a compendium of unsubstantiated and biased assertions."We do not support such national
reports making observations on the internal affairs of sovereign States," said the statement.It said Pakistan has always played a positive
role and engaged the international community including the United States with a view to have better and mutual understanding of the issue of
religious freedoms, which are under stress around the world.It said Pakistan is of the view that all countries are obliged to promote
religious harmony and have a duty to protect their citizens in accordance with national laws and international norms.Pakistan said a glaring
discriminatory aspect of the report is that it has ignored the systematic persecution of minorities, particularly Muslims, in India, which
are subjected to alien domination and foreign occupation such as in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.It also said Pakistan has often raised
its own concerns internationally including with the Western governments and the US over the growing trend of Islamophobia in their own
countries.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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