US Congress formed federal body on international religious freedom has appealed to the Obama administration to designate Pakistan among nations listed as worst violators of religious freedom due to the current state of minorities in the country.
In its annual report, US Commission for International Religious Freedom , USCIRF said that in 2015, the Pakistani government continued to perpetrate and tolerate systematic and ongoing religious freedom violations.
The USCIRF yesterday recommended the State Department to designate Pakistan a country of particular concern, or CPC, under the International Religious Freedom Act.
In addition to Pakistan, USCIRF has also recommended the State Department to designate seven other countries as CPC. These countries are Central African Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Syria, Tajikistan and Vietnam. The State Department designated CPC countries are Myanmar, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.