Governor assures minorities of religious freedom

LAHORE:

Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has said minorities are safe in Pakistan and the government is ensuring complete religious freedom for them.

“There is no doubt that societies that do not ensure protection of minorities and religious freedom are destroyed,” he maintained while speaking to the media at the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition on interfaith harmony organised by the Swiss embassy at Governor’s House on Monday,

The governor said all sectors, including the government, were working together to promote interfaith harmony in Pakistan.

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International human rights bodies, including the United Nations, must take note of the atrocities committed against minorities in India, he stressed.

The governor said all minorities in Pakistan, including Sikhs, Christians and Hindus, were on one page for the promotion of religious harmony in the country. “Everyone is working together, because of which whenever anyone in Pakistan tried to conspire against religious harmony, they failed. The government is also taking practical steps to promote religious harmony,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 22^nd, 2022.