A three-member committee including interior minister, advisor to prime minister on foreign affairs and national security and special assistant to PM on foreign affairs would meet today (Sunday) to suggest measures and relief efforts from Pakistan for Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar.
The ministry of interior said this in a statement issued here on Saturday.
The statement said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during the cabinet meeting held the other day had formed a committee including Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz and Special Assistant to PM on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi to suggest measures and relief efforts from Pakistan for the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar.
The committee would meet today (Sunday) to deliberate upon the issue.
The PM formed the committee after interior minister raised the issue in the cabinet meeting held to approve budget for fiscal 2015-16.
The statement said that the interior minister had raised the issue twice during cabinet meetings including the one held the other day, in which the Prime Minister and the entire cabinet expressed serious concern over the plight of Muslims in Myanmar.
The interior minister in the statement said that he was hopeful and optimistic that the government of Pakistan would proactively reach out to the battered and oppressed Muslims of Myanmar.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan also said that the inaction of the international community and criminal silence of the proponents of human rights and organisations over the gross violations of rights of Rohingya Muslims and their persecution and genocide raises serious questions about the utility and effectiveness of international forums.
Such international forums proclaim themselves as upholder, defender and promoters of human rights and democratic values, the interior minister said.
The minister while making impassioned appeal to the United Nations, OIC, the Muslim World and the regional powers asked the international community not to close their eyes to this genocide.
He cautioned them that the level of atrocities and scale of oppression of the hapless Muslims in this part of the world would nullify recent efforts aimed at addressing the grievances of the Muslims to wean away their youth falling into the traps of militants.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan lamented that except for a few countries, no serious effort had been witnessed from the Muslim world to check the oppressor and to plead the case of the oppressed community.
This, he said, speaks volumes of our apathy and indifferent attitude towards our fellow brethren and is a matter of serious concern for the entire Muslim world.
The ministry of interior said this in a statement issued here on Saturday.
The statement said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during the cabinet meeting held the other day had formed a committee including Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz and Special Assistant to PM on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi to suggest measures and relief efforts from Pakistan for the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar.
The committee would meet today (Sunday) to deliberate upon the issue.
The PM formed the committee after interior minister raised the issue in the cabinet meeting held to approve budget for fiscal 2015-16.
The statement said that the interior minister had raised the issue twice during cabinet meetings including the one held the other day, in which the Prime Minister and the entire cabinet expressed serious concern over the plight of Muslims in Myanmar.
The interior minister in the statement said that he was hopeful and optimistic that the government of Pakistan would proactively reach out to the battered and oppressed Muslims of Myanmar.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan also said that the inaction of the international community and criminal silence of the proponents of human rights and organisations over the gross violations of rights of Rohingya Muslims and their persecution and genocide raises serious questions about the utility and effectiveness of international forums.
Such international forums proclaim themselves as upholder, defender and promoters of human rights and democratic values, the interior minister said.
The minister while making impassioned appeal to the United Nations, OIC, the Muslim World and the regional powers asked the international community not to close their eyes to this genocide.
He cautioned them that the level of atrocities and scale of oppression of the hapless Muslims in this part of the world would nullify recent efforts aimed at addressing the grievances of the Muslims to wean away their youth falling into the traps of militants.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan lamented that except for a few countries, no serious effort had been witnessed from the Muslim world to check the oppressor and to plead the case of the oppressed community.
This, he said, speaks volumes of our apathy and indifferent attitude towards our fellow brethren and is a matter of serious concern for the entire Muslim world.
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