NEW YORK - The United Nations, with Pakistan as a co-sponsor, yesterday adopted a resolution titled ‘promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech". The resolution has urged the global community to counter all forms and dimensions of hate speech. Pakistan Mission Counsellor Bilal Chaudhry, on behalf of the mission, expressed profound satisfaction with the resolution’s adoption. He said that the text adopted resonates with a resolution on religious hatred, adopted recently at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which was presented by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC group. Chaudhry said Islamophobia is on the rise with repeated incidents of desecration of the Holy Quran.

Source: The Nation July 27, 2023 13:03 UTC