Dawn: KARACHI: The National Assembly has given only 15 out of more than 1,000 hours during the 130-day proceedings of full sessions to issues concerning religious minorities since the last year general elections, it emerged on Saturday.
“Lawmakers talked that little for religious minorities despite sitting for 130 full days in more than a year,” said Shahnaz Sheedi of the South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK) while briefing journalists about performance of the assembly in resolving minorities issues.
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Hardly 10 times, she added, issues pertaining to religious minorities in Pakistan were raised and discussed. That negligible time was given to the Hindu and Christian communities after attacks on churches, temples and gurdwaras in different parts of the country, the killing of lawmakers in the name of religion and uproar ensued in the wake of those incidents, she explained.
The journalists were informed that even the national assembly that took oath under the constitution, which guarantees protection to religious minorities, failed to implement any ‘worthy decision on rights of the minorities’.
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