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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.
LAHORE: March 31 marked 2483 days, six years and nine months after the landmark judgment on the rights of the minorities was passed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on April 19,.
ISLAMABAD: Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi on Monday said there was no dispute on the rights given to the minorities under the Constitution of Pakistan and Islamic laws.
Talking to a delegation of ulema and mashaikh belonging to different schools of thought, he said the one-member Minority Commission comprising Dr Shoaib Suddle did not consult Muslim scholars and respective forums before drafting recommendations for uniform curriculum.
He said the National Minorities Commission had also opposed the Minority Commission’s recommendations.
Mr Ashrafi said there was no content in the educational curriculum that was against religious minorities. “Students belonging to the religious minorities have a choice to study Islamic history and Islamic teachings in the curriculum and it is not forced upon any individual,” he said.
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