UN Human Rights Experts Ask Pakistan To End Violence On Ahmadiyya Community

Voicing grave concern over continuing reports of discrimination and violence targeting the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, UN human rights experts on Monday asked Islamabad to break the "pattern of impunity" that allows perpetrators to act without restraint.In a statement from Geneva, the experts also called on Pakistani authorities to ensure the protection of the community and uphold the country's international human rights obligations."We are deeply concerned by persistent reports that members of the Ahmadiyya community continue to face harassment, criminal prosecution, violence, and exclusion because of their religious identity," the experts said."Pakistan must break the pattern of impunity that has allowed perpetrators of attacks and incitement to hatred and violence to act without restraint," they said. "These attacks take place with tacit official complicity whilst the cycle of fear prevents people and institutions from upholding the rights and dignity of these minority groups."