Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 8057

Pakistan: Human Rights

Tabled: 8 October 2024
Answered: 15 October 2024

Question

Alex Easton

IndependentNorth Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of the (a) recent sentencing to death on charges of blasphemy of Shaughta Karan i

Answer

Mr Hamish Falconer
Pakistan is a FCDO human rights priority country. We work to protect and promote human rights in Pakistan through our diplomatic engagement and programme funding. This includes regularly raising our opposition to the death penalty and concerns about the m...

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