Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 65345

Pakistan: Religious Freedom

Tabled: 7 July 2025
Answered: 29 July 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Pakistani counterpart on people imprisoned under blasphemy laws for exercising religious beliefs in that country.

Answer

Mr Hamish Falconer
This Government remains deeply concerned by the misuse of blasphemy laws in Pakistan, particularly where they are used to target individuals for peacefully exercising their religion or belief. We regularly raise this issue at senior levels, urging Pakista...
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