US remains committed to promote religious freedom: WH

The US is committed to coordinating with governments around the world to promote religious freedom for all, the White House said while responding to a petition seeking release of Jagtar Singh Hawara.
The White House, however, refused to comment on the petition involving the convicted killer of Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in 1995.
The petition, signed by more than one lakh people, on the White House website had sought the intervention of the Obama Administration for release of Hawara.
"The United States remains committed to coordinating with governments around the world to promote religious freedom for all citizens," said 'We the People Team' on behalf of the White House yesterday.

"But we cannot comment here on the specific foreign criminal justice matter raised in your petition," it said.
The President has made clear that America's deep respect for religious liberty and pluralism must not stop at its shores, the response said and referred to Obama's address to the Indian people on his visit there last year in which he stressed the importance of these fundamental principles to both the democracies.
"In both our countries, in India and in America, our diversity is our strength. And we have to guard against any efforts to divide ourselves along sectarian lines or any other lines," Obama had said in his address last year.