{"id":42613,"date":"2018-01-08T02:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42613"},"modified":"2022-11-26T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:10:11","slug":"islamabad-seeks-clarification-from-washington-over-its-announcement-to-place-pakistan-on-a-special-watch-list-says-aizaz-chaidhry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42613","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad seeks clarification from Washington over its announcement to place Pakistan on a special watch list: says Aizaz Chaidhry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan&#8217;s Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that Islamabad is seeking a clarification from Washington over its recent announcement to place Pakistan on a special watch list &#8220;for severe violations of religious freedom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have noted the announcement by the US State Department regarding placement of Pakistan on a special watch list,\u201d the ambassador said in a statement on Sunday, adding that Pakistan was seeking clarifications from the United States regarding its rationale and implications.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the steps taken by the government for the protection of human rights and rights of religious freedom in Pakistan must be acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department made the announcement last week under the purview of the US Legislation on International Religious Freedom.<br \/>buy premarin online <a href=\"http:\/\/padstyle.com\/wp-content\/languages\/new\/premarin.html\">padstyle.com\/wp-content\/languages\/new\/premarin.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is, however, important to acknowledge that Pakistan is firmly committed to promotion and protection of human rights including the right to religious freedom, under its Constitution,\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhry underscored wide-ranging legislative, institutional and administrative measures taken by the government of Pakistan which were geared to ensuring full coverage of guarantees afforded by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the international community was well aware of incremental steps being taken by Pakistan that had brought about positive change on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to work with the international community with a view to ensure that internationally agreed standards on religious freedom are observed in Pakistan and the broader region,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (TNS): Pakistan&#8217;s Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that Islamabad is seeking a clarification from Washington over its recent announcement to place Pakistan on a special watch list &#8220;for severe violations of religious freedom&#8221;. \u201cWe have noted the announcement by the US State Department regarding placement of Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108172,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42613\/revisions\/108172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}