Pakistan has categorically rejected the 2023 Country Report on Human Rights by the US State Department.

In a statement today, the Foreign Office said contents of the report are unfair, based on inaccurate information and are completely divorced from ground reality.

It said the report lacks objectivity and politicizes the international human rights agenda, clearly demonstrating double standards.

The Foreign expressed concern that the US State Department’s report has highlighted human rights situations around the world but ignored the gross human rights violations in Gaza and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

It said the US State Department’s annual exercises of preparing such unsolicited reports remains inherently flawed in their methodology as they use a domestic social lens to judge human rights in a politically biased manner.

The statement said if the US must engage in this exercise, then we expect the US State Department to at least demonstrate objectivity, impartiality and responsibility in conducti
ng assessment of complex issues.

It also emphasized that the state department report should demonstrate requisite moral courage to speak truth about all situations and play a constructive role for bringing an end to atrocities in the most urgent hotpots of gross human rights violations.

The Foreign Office reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to strengthen its own human rights framework, promote international human rights agenda and uphold fairness and objectivity in the international human rights discourse.

Source: Radio Pakistan