{"id":722,"date":"2016-11-01T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/2016\/11\/01\/new-report-on-pakistan-calls-for-change-in-uk-towards-pakistani-christian-asylum-seekers\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T04:30:40","slug":"new-report-on-pakistan-calls-for-change-in-uk-towards-pakistani-christian-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/new-report-on-pakistan-calls-for-change-in-uk-towards-pakistani-christian-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report on Pakistan calls for change in UK towards Pakistani Christian asylum seekers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Image of Peter Trotter, Senior Protection Officer at the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand, receiving the latest BPCA report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new updated report on the situation of religious and other minorities in Pakistan is being launched in the Houses of Parliament today from 1pm to<br \/>\n    3pm by the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) with support from several other UK and European human rights organisations, in an event chaired<br \/>\n    by Jim Shannon MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pakistan Minorities and the chairman of the BPCA, Wilson Chowdhry.<\/p>\n<p> The report is entitled \u2018Education, Human Rights Violations in Pakistan and the Scandal involving UNHCR and Christian asylum seekers in Thailand\u2019 by<br \/>\n    Desmond Fernandes, a human rights and genocide expert. Additional speakers include Professor the Lord Alton of Liverpool and Vice Chair of the All-Party<br \/>\n    Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief, Margaret Owen, OBE, founder-director of Widows for Peace through Democracy, and a member of the<br \/>\n    UK Bar Human Rights Committe, Peter Tatchell, Faiz Baluch from the Free Balochistan Movement and several others.<\/p>\n<p> Ranbir Singh of the Hindu Human Rights Group, also speaking at the event, said of the report that it \u2018sheds light on areas that have been neglected,<br \/>\n    brushed aside or ignored. What should be an unambiguous situation of gross human rights violations has once again become subject to the pressure of<br \/>\n    political convenience, spin and propaganda.\u2019 He praised the BPCA for highlighting the persecution not just of Christians, but other minorities in Pakistan<br \/>\n    and added \u2018What happened in Syria and Iraq was just a better covered and more dramatic turn of events to what has been happening in Pakistan. What<br \/>\n    has been described in Desmond Fernandes&#8217; book as slow genocide by drip effect, is now accelerating into full scale demographic catastrophe.\u2019<\/p>\n<p> The report has also been commended by academics such as Dr Shahzavar Karimzadi, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Hertfordshire, who<br \/>\n    commented : \u2018Pakistan has been marred by endless extreme violence, corruption, religious bigotry and militarism. Desmond\u2019s book is a vivid tale of<br \/>\n    the effects of this tragic-catastrophic geopolitical construction.\u2019<\/p>\n<p> In addition to a message of support from the Bishop of Wakefield, Tony Robinson, Mosa Zahed, Executive director of Middle East Forum for Development,<br \/>\n    a European organization that worked with BPCA in successfully gaining<a class=\"vYTP67m086Hi Rh4wKO8q7\" href=\"#17324399\" title=\"Click to Continue > by Advertise&#8221; style=&#8221;z-index: 2147483647;&#8221;> special<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arrow.png\"><\/a> high risk status in Holland for Christians<br \/>\n    fleeing Pakistan, said:<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: rgb(79, 129, 189);\">\u2018Today, we join the BPCA and Desmond Fernandes in their call for the Home Office and the EU to acknowledge the persecution status of Pakistani Christians in order to guarantee their protection.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p> For more information, including details of entry point for journalists wishing to attend, please see the attached email which will need to be printed<br \/>\n    off and presented to gain access.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Abetz from Canada who utilized the report to raise a question in the Australian Senate House provided a letter of support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/LETTER.jpg?Action=thumbnail&amp;algorithm=fill_proportional&amp;width=700\" width=\"700\"><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image of Peter Trotter, Senior Protection Officer at the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand, receiving the latest BPCA report. 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