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Balochistan: Human Rights

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 166239, tabled on 15 March 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the adherence to human rights in Balochistan.

Answered on

23 March 2023

Pakistan is an FCDO human rights priority country. The UK regularly engages the Government of Pakistan at a senior level on the need to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law. On 30 January, Minister for South Asia, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, discussed the human rights situation with Minister for Human Rights Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada.