700 Christian girls forcefully married to Muslims each year: report
* Around 5,000 Hindus leave Pakistan every year due to discriminatory treatment, forced conversions and fear of safety
700 Christian girls forcefully married to Muslims each year: report
By: By Kashif Hussain
21-Jul-16
LAHORE: The European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance has released its annual report for 2015 and showed serious concerns over the minorities' situation in Pakistan, especially the issues pertaining to the country's blasphemy laws.
The intergroup comprises like-minded members of the European Parliament dedicated to ensuring that the EU, in its external actions, promotes and protects the right to freedom of religion or belief. In December 2014, the European Parliament Conference of Presidents formally established the intergroup, which is non-partisan, being composed of MEPs from almost all political groups in the European Parliament.
The intergroup, in its report titled "The State of Freedom of Religion or Belief in the World", while referring the blasphemy laws in Pakistan, has claimed that due to such laws, Ahmadis suffer 37 percent of accusations and Christians 14 percent, despite constituting only two percent of the population respectively.
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