Pakistan has unequivocally rejected the contents of the “2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices,” calling it “unfair, based on inaccurate information and completely divorced from the ground reality,” as the US State Department released its appraisal of the human rights situation per country.
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement on Thursday that the US State Department’s yearly exercises in producing such unsolicited reports “lack objectivity and remain inherently flawed in their methodology.”
“These publications assess human rights in other nations in an unfair and politically biased way by using a home social lens. The politicization of the international human rights agenda and lack of objectivity in this year’s report are notable once again.
“It plainly demonstrates double standards, undermining the international human rights discourse,” the speaker continued.
“It is deeply concerning that a report purported to highlight human rights situations around the world ignores or downplays the most urgent hotspots of gross human rights violations, such as in Gaza and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK),” Baloch said, drawing attention to the US’s “double standards” on serious humanitarian issues.
