ICC Note:

A report in the UK Parliament has called on their government to recognize the suffering of persecuted Christian and Pakistan and re-evaluate the way the country deals with Pakistani Christian refugees. This report comes at a time when the UK and other countries in Europe are accepting thousands of refugees from Syria, but have yet to recognize the real suffering of Christians being persecuted in Pakistan. Will this report lead to a change in policy or will persecuted Christians in Pakistan continue to suffer? 

2/25/2016 Pakistan (Breitbart) – A parliamentary report has called for new guidelines recognizing Pakistani Christians as genuine asylum seekers, with one Peer demanding the government wake up to the “reality” of Christian persecution in the Muslim world.

The report comes at a time when the government has bowed to media pressure to accept tens of thousands more Muslim migrants from Syria, but continues to ignore the plight of Christians in Pakistan.

“Pakistan presents a particularly bleak environment for individuals wishing to manifest their right to freedom of religion or belief”, asserts the report by the All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Pakistan is 96 per cent Muslim, and the extensive report details how Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and other “non-Muslim” groups face violence from extremists as-well as “state sanctioned” subordination via punitive blasphemy laws, political underrepresentation and the “Islamisation” of institutions.

It directly challenges Home Office’s Guidance about Pakistani Christians and Christian converts, stating that, “a new country guidance case regarding Pakistani Christians is urgently required to provide sufficient guidance for Pakistani Christian asylum cases”.

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