Islamabad: Pakistan is well aware of her obligations and committed to ensure and protect the human rights of her citizens in pursuance to the constitution of Pakistan and international commitments, not by any external pressure.
This was said by Federal Minster for Human Rights Dr. Shireen Mazari in a reply of the communiqué of Brad Adams, Asia Director, Human Rights Watch, USA to the Prime Minister Imran Khan ,
In her letter Mazari said “I hope that you would also raise your voice against a massive human rights violations, carried out in Indian Occupied Kashmir, Palestine and in some European States against Muslims citizens”, she further added.
Prime Minister and the government are committed to ensuring the human rights guaranteed to all Pakistani citizens under the constitution. In this context, the government is well aware of the need to effectively enforce the laws regarding the enforcement of the human rights of all our citizens as well as the need to bring our national laws in alignment with our international legal commitments through the international treaties we have ratified. The government is committed to ensuring the fulfillment of all our international legal obligations.“We will do all this because we believe in fulfilling our constitutional obligations and we certainly do not need to be informed or reminded of our human rights agenda. My Ministry is already moving forward with a holistic action plan. We know the prevailing shortcomings in ensuring human rights of all our citizens and are working towards overcoming them”, she added.
Additionally, I hope your organization, HRW, will take up the issue of the violation of Human Rights by some European states against their Muslim citizens in the form of curtailing their right to practice their religion freely and in the form of abuse of Islam and its Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), in direct contravention of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Since HRW claims to monitor human rights across the world, I would like to be informed on how you are ensuring the rights of Muslim citizens to have their mosques and be able to dress and practice their religion freely and without ridicule in European states.
