Religious perspectives
Pakistan: the land of religious apartheid and jackboot justice
Discrimination in Pakistan
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Publisher:
Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007
Pakistan has refused to cooperate with the International Convention Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Committee (CERD) since 1998 and has failed to submit five periodic reports. This document from an Indian Human Rights organisation summarises and highlights key areas of concern in Pakistan.
The authors argue that Pakistan's officia recognition of only religious minorities - not ethnic,
linguistic or racial minorities - has subsumed these groups under the rubric of Islam. In addition the document discusses the armed conflicts in Balochistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas which show that Pakistan has failed to subsume ethnic and racial identities of the Balochis and the tribals. Consequently, discrimination against the religious, ethnic, linguistic or racial minorities has come to the fore as never before.
Areas examined in this report include:
- the legal framework sanctioning discrimination
- the practice and patterns of discrimination against "non-Muslims"
- discrimination against the ethnic Balochis
- discrimination against the people of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
