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BJP MP slams USCIRF for remarks on CAB, demands resolution in Lok Sabha
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 11 (ANI): BJP leader Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday slammed the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for its remarks against Home Minister Amit Shah over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and said the Lok Sabha should pass a resolution to send a stro
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'Inaccurate, unwarranted': India condemns USCIRF's statement on CAB
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 10 (ANI): Condemning the "inaccurate" and "unwarranted" comments made by US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Citizenship Amendment Bill that was passed in the Lok Sabha yesterday, India on Tuesday said that the Bill aims at providing expedited
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US urges international community to ensure succession of Dalai Lama by 'no
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], Nov 22 (ANI): Asserting that the succession of Dalai Lama "does not belong" to the Chinese government, the United States on Thursday (local time) urged the international community to ensure that the succession process goes forward by its normal methods.
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US favours Tibetan Buddhist system to choose Dalai Lama's successor: Samue
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Oct 28 (ANI): The US government supports the Tibetan people and favours the Tibetan Buddhist system to choose the successor to spiritual leader Dalai Lama, country's Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom Samuel D Brownback said on Mon
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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi calls International Religious Freedom report 'prejudic
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi (India), June 23 (ANI): India's Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday rejected as "prejudiced" the US State Department's report on International Religious Freedom 2018 criticising the BJP government.
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Pak rejects listing as religious freedom violator by US
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 12 (ANI): Responding to United States Department of State's designation of Pakistan as 'Countries of Particular Concern' under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, Islamabad rejected the profiling, terming it 'unilateral and politically motivated pronou
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US blacklists Pakistan for violating religious freedom
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 11 (ANI): The United States has designated Pakistan as one of the Countries of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated "systematic, ongoing, (and) egregious violations of religious freedom".
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Ahmadiyya community develops Rabwah on its own accord
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rabwah [Pakistan], Dec 28 (ANI): The Ahmadiyya community, a section that moved its headquarters to Pakistan from India in 1948, purchased a barren stretch of desert land from the government, developing it on their own, naming it Rabwah.
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USCIRF condemns brutal treatment of Ahmadis in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec. 10(ANI): The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has condemned the raid by Pakistan's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on the publications and audit offices of the Ahmadiyya community in Punjab province.
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US expresses concern over rising blasphemy cases in Pak
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi, Aug. 12 (ANI): The U.S. State Department's annual report on International Religious Freedom has expressed concern at the increase in the number of blasphemy cases in Pakistan and the use of such charges as "justification for mob justice" in the country.
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