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Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari: Imran Khan's right pick for rights job?

Mazari, at the helm of newly created human rights ministry, faces the challenge of ensuring rights of minorities in Pakistan

Illustration by Ajay Mohanty
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Illustration by Ajay Mohanty

Aditi Phadnis
She is back to doing what she does best: Butting heads. Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari, Pakistan’s minister for human rights, has strongly criticised the Dutch government for allowing space in that country’s parliament for its leading right-wing opposition, the anti-Islamist Dutch Freedom Party, to hold a competition of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

The cartoons, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, exacted a terrible price: Rage and anger in Islamic nations culminating in the killing of 12 people in Paris in 2015, following an attack on the Paris office of the French secularist satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.  Within hours of