Pakistan violates religious freedom, America puts on special watch list

Pakistan is the first country to join this list. This category is made from a special law of 2016.

Washington: The US State Department has informed that the US has put Pakistan in the Special Watch List with regard to "serious violations" of religious freedom. US Secretary of State Rex Tyleron announced the redeployment of 10 countries as "Countries of Particular Concern".

State Department spokesman Heather Nourt said, "The Foreign Minister also put Pakistan in the Special Watch List of 'serious violations' of religious freedom." The Special Watch List is for countries where religious freedom There is a serious violation but it does not go to the level of the CPC.

Pakistan is the first country to join this list. This category is made from a special law of 2016. "In many places around the world, people have to face harassment and legal action to follow the freedom of their religion and have to go behind the bars," Nairet said in a statement.

He said that according to the International Religious Freedom Act 1998, the Foreign Minister every year nominates those governments as 'special concern countries' which are involved in the violation of religious freedom or they ignore them.

He said, "The State Department announced that the Foreign Minister called Burmese, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan as the country with special watch list on December 22, 2017." '