ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday known as Washington’s resolution to designate Pakistan as a Nation of Specific Concern (CPC) “indifferent from floor realities” and expressed concern over the exclusion of India from the record.

“I’d now like to precise Pakistan’s deep concern and disappointment on the US State Division’s unilateral and arbitrary designation of Pakistan as a “Nation of Specific Concern (CPC),” mentioned International Workplace Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch throughout the weekly briefing.

The spokesperson highlighted that Pakistan had a “multi-religious and pluralistic society with a wealthy custom of inter-faith concord”.

She added that spiritual freedom and safety of the rights of minorities are assured within the Structure and enforced by means of a variety of legislative, coverage, and administrative measures.

“We now have additionally famous with deep concern and disappointment that India, the most important violator of spiritual freedom, has as soon as once more not been included within the State Division’s designation record regardless of a transparent advice by the US Fee on Worldwide Spiritual Freedom (USCIRF),” deplored the spokesperson.

Baloch mentioned that New Delhi’s “conspicuous omission raises severe questions in regards to the credibility and transparency” of the method. She added that the “omission” additionally makes the record a “subjective and discriminatory train”.

The spokesperson reminded Washington that New Delhi’s remedy of spiritual minorities has been the “topic of a number of hearings of the US Congress and studies of UN excessive commissioner for human rights, the particular process mandate holders of the UN Human Rights Council, and reputed worldwide NGOs”.

“We now have conveyed our considerations to the US authorities concerning this designation,” mentioned the spokesperson.

‘International locations of concern’

Final week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken introduced that america has designated Pakistan, China, Iran and Russia, amongst others, as nations of specific concern below the Spiritual Freedom Act over extreme violations.

Blinken in a press release mentioned these designated as nations of specific concern — which additionally embrace North Korea and Myanmar — engaged in or tolerated extreme violations of spiritual freedom.

Algeria, the Central African Republic, Comoros and Vietnam had been positioned on the watch record.

A number of teams, together with the Kremlin-aligned Wagner Group, a personal paramilitary organisation that’s energetic in Syria, Africa and Ukraine, had been additionally designated as entities of specific concern. The Wagner group was designated over its actions within the Central African Republic, Blinken mentioned.

“All over the world, governments and non-state actors harass, threaten, jail, and even kill people on account of their beliefs,” Blinken mentioned within the assertion.

“The US won’t stand by within the face of those abuses.”

He added that Washington would welcome the chance to fulfill with all governments to stipulate concrete steps for removing from the lists.