Call for law to protect minorities’ properties
July 10, 2021
LAHORE: People’s Commission for Minorities Rights (PCMR), a voluntary human rights watchdog, has suggested a comprehensive review and analysis of the problems related to communal properties before introducing a law for the purpose.
PCMR Chairperson Peter Jacob and members Justice (retd) Kalash Nath Kohli and Fatima Atif, in a joint statement, on behalf of the PCMR, emphatically rejected the idea of introducing an amendment to the ordinance that gives absolute power to an entity or person.
“On the one hand the properties belonging to Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Jews have been usurped with impunity, while the officials of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony have been facing charges of embezzlement, etc.,” the statement said.