WASHINGTON (Agencies) - A US report said Friday that Pakistan had a culture of impunity on human rights abuses and stated that security forces were operating outside the control of the civilian government. An annual State Department survey on human rights reported widespread concerns in Pakistan including violence against women, child labour, corruption and discrimination against religious minorities. The report said Pakistan had not held anyone accountable for a 2009 incident shown in a leaked video in which men in military uniforms shot dead six young men who were lined up and blindfolded with hands behind their backs. A failure to credibly investigate allegations, impose disciplinary or accountability measures and consistently prosecute those responsible for abuses contributed to a culture of impunity, the report said. But the State Department report was blunt about the persistent power of the armed forces. Security forces did not report to civilian authorities and operated independently from the civilian government, it said. The report took note of government efforts to improve human rights, including a new law against sexual harassment and the allocation of reserved seats in parliament for religious minorities. But the report said that women spoke of rape in custody, with few perpetrators held to account, and said that women and girls were often subjected to abuse or honour killings as part of family disputes. Women often were treated as the property or goods of their families, and perpetrators were often husbands and other male family members, it said. The report said that religious minorities - namely Christians and members of the Ahmadiyya movement - were more likely to suffer abuse in prison and reported cases of torture in custody. The US faulted Indian security forces for committing gross human rights violations - from killings to torture in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and other conflict-hit regions. There were numerous reports that the government and its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals and insurgents, especially in areas of conflict such as Jammu and Kashmir, the Northeastern S and the Naxalite belt, where nongovernmental forces also committed such killings, the US State Department said in annual 2010 assessment of state of human rights around the world. According to the Institute for Conflict Management, as of October 17, there were 1,616 fatalities in the country including members of security forces, individuals classified by the government as terrorists, and civilians, which represented a decrease from 2,231 fatalities in 2009. Most encounter killings, in which security forces and police extrajudicially killed alleged criminals or insurgents, occurred in areas in conflict, but the practice reportedly occurred elsewhere in the country as well. In March a number of media outlets reported that in response to a Right to Information (RTI) request the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) provided data indicating that 1,224 of the 2,560 police encounter cases reviewed since 1993 had been staged by security forces. Despite the NHRCs published recommendations that the Criminal Investigations Department investigate all police encounter deaths, many states did not follow the guidelines and continued to conduct internal reviews only at the discretion of senior officers. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported that on January 21 Manipur security personnel abducted and killed a shop owner in Chekon. Memcha Fazeruddin stated that her husbands body was returned with 15 bullet holes, but the body was clad in combat dress that was free of any bullet holes, which suggested tampering with the body. Police claimed that Fazeruddin had been shot in an encounter with troops from the 33 Assam Rifles in Kwakta Khuman and that they had found arms and ammunition on his body. In a meeting set up by community members, the Manipur Chief Minister assured Fezeruddins wife that he would give her family compensation and find a suitable job for one of her relatives.