Pakistan rejects US human rights report as ‘biased and politicised’

In a strongly worded assertion, the overseas workplace criticised the annual observe of the US State Division in getting ready such stories, labeling them as missing objectivity and flawed in methodology. It accused these stories of making use of a home social lens to guage human rights conditions in different nations, pushed by political biases.

The 2023 Human Rights Report from the US State Division, unveiled this week, accused Pakistan and India of intimidating or looking for reprisals in opposition to people past their borders, together with activists, defenders, and journalists. Each nations had been indicted for important human rights violations similar to arbitrary and extrajudicial killings, torture, inhumane remedy, and arbitrary arrests, with an absence of accountability contributing to widespread impunity.

Moreover, the report alleged that successive Pakistani governments tacitly endorsed enforced disappearances, citing figures from the federal government’s Fee of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances. It famous that out of 9,967 reported missing-person circumstances since 2011, 7,714 had been resolved whereas 2,253 remained pending.

The report additionally highlighted navy trials of civilians accused of rioting on Might 9, following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan.

In response, the overseas workplace criticised the dearth of objectivity on this 12 months’s report, asserting its politicisation of the worldwide human rights agenda. It expressed deep concern over the report’s oversight or downplaying of pressing human rights points in locations like Gaza and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan condemned the silence of america on the continued disaster in Gaza, highlighting the need for the report to handle such urgent issues. Pakistan reiterated its dedication to strengthening its personal human rights framework and fascinating constructively in selling the worldwide human rights agenda with equity and objectivity.

If the US continues this reporting observe, Pakistan expects the State Division to train due diligence, objectivity, impartiality, and duty, it mentioned.

The FO urged the US State Division to talk in truth about all conditions and play a constructive function in supporting worldwide efforts to finish atrocities in areas dealing with extreme human rights violations.