Islamabad, September 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): Caretaker Minister for Human Rights Khalil George has reiterated the government’s commitment to protect the rights of all religious minorities in the country.

He was speaking at the launching ceremony of the second National Media Fellowship on Gender-Based Violence and Child Marriages in Karachi.

The Minister stressed the need to report with responsibility and confirmation of the facts and figures before reporting news.

On a query about the Jaranwala incident, he said 200 miscreants were found involved in the incident and 128 of them were nabbed on the very first day.

The Minister said the government is determined to take all the miscreants involved in the heinous crime to task.

He said when a few extremists set ablaze the houses of Christian community in Jaranwala, there were hundreds of Muslims there to help out the victims, which demonstrates the exemplary relationship between majority and minority communities of Pakistan.

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