The Commission of Human Rights MPs (PCHR) has urged to make fresh efforts at the national level, where people of all religions and backgrounds can join the society equally. PCHR stressed that social unity and national progress can be achieved only when no one is marginalized. PCHR Executive Director Shafiq Chaudhary, National Justice and Peace Commission Director Naeem Yusuf Gill and honored human rights advocate Tanveer Jahan also expressed their views in media briefing. During briefing, Tanveer Jahan highlighted the discrepancies going on between commitments and real practices, and emphasized that minorities were being systematically marginalized by appropriate occasions.
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He said that the quota of 5 percent of the jobs allocated for minorities in the public sector is not fulfilled on a large scale, and more than 70 percent of the prescribed posts are lying vacant. He further said that many minority people find themselves pushing themselves into the jobs of cleaning workers, and in some jobs they are clearly limited to low-level positions, as Sama TV has told. Regarding education, Jahan said that about 60 percent of minority students face discrimination, including refusal to enroll, separation in classrooms and forced to study irrelevant religious subjects from their beliefs. In Sindh, 44 percent of minority children do not go to school, while the national average is 27 percent, which they described a clear example of a systematic boycott.
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In addition, he reported that the university quota seats prescribed for minorities are often less useful due to financial obstacles, lack of awareness and ineffective enforcement mechanisms, deprived of minority higher education and commercial progress. Sama TV’s report mentions, “These statistics,” Ms. Jahan concluded, “highlights the immediate need for concrete action to convert equality and inclusion into tangible realities from constitutional promises only.