South Asia State of Minorities Report 2019 Nepal We extend our sincerest gratitude to Dr Mark Turin and Saroj K Nepal for providing thoroughly detailed and insightful reviews of the draft chapter for Nepal. We are also thankful to all members of the Advisory Committee (Mohna Ansari, Yam Bahadur Kisan, Youba Raj Luitel and Sashi Adhikari) for their encouragement and support. We are also immensely grateful to the all the refugees and individuals interviewed at the Bhutanese and Tibetan refugee camps for welcoming us into the camps so graciously and for sharing their stories with us. Pakistan We owe a word of thanks to Sahar Ahmad and Haider Imtiaz for reviewing the draft chapter. We are also grateful to Javaid William and Sana Salman for their support and guidance in drafting and refining the Pakistan chapter. Sri Lanka We are grateful to the following organisations for their support and guidance in drafting the Sri Lanka chapter: National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka Amnesty International, INFORM, National Peace Council, Law and Society Trust. We would also like to extend a word of thanks to the individuals interviewed, for their time and input: Rabia Mehmood (Amnesty), Ruki Fernando (Inform) and Aamina Nizar. We are also thankful to reviewers, Jehan Perera, (National Peace Council) and Jayadeva Uyangoda, for their invaluable input and guidance in refining the Sri Lanka chapter. Finally, we would like to thank Fernand de Varennes, the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, for writing the foreword to this report. Thanks are also due to Minority Rights Group International (MRG), London, and Shikha Dilawri and Ifra Asad for their support throughout the production of the report. The South Asia Collective February 2020 xii