worldUpdated: Apr 14, 2020 10:52 ISTA US bipartisan panel that monitors religious freedom around the world has expressed concern over reports that Pakistan’s Hindu and Christian minorities were being denied food aid amid the Covid-19 crisis. According to several media reports, Hindus and Christians in some parts of the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi were denied aid during the distribution of relief materials by the NGO Saylani Welfare International Trust last week. “The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is troubled by the reports of food aid being denied to Hindus and Christians amid the spread of Covid-19 in Pakistan,” the panel said in a statement early on Tuesday. Food aid must not be denied because of one’s faith. The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan US federal government entity that monitors and reports on threats to religious freedom across the globe.

Source: Hindustan Times April 14, 2020 04:57 UTC