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Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslim community releases damning persecution report

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(Reuters) – Pakistan’s disenfranchised Ahmadi community released an annual report on Saturday that detailed growing hostilities against the minority sect, including indiscriminate arrests and impediments blocking them from voting in general elections. Ahmadis are forbidden from calling themselves Muslims or using Islamic symbols in their religious practices. They face discrimination and violence over accusations their...

In Pakistan Ahmadi Mulsims have been denied the right to vote

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Pakistan’s election laws have created a separate electoral register for Ahmadis.  In order to vote Ahmadis are required to either deny their belief in the founder of their community as a Muslim reformer, or deny their Islamic beliefs and self-identify as a non-Muslim minority in Pakistan.   This has acted as an effective block on...

NYC Ahmadiyya Muslims Hit With Double Discrimination

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New York is a city that boasts of its religious tolerance, but even here, Ahmadiyya Muslims feel the sting of discrimination. Though they represent just 1 percent of Muslims worldwide, members of the minority sect have felt uneasy here for years, and in the past decade, what was once whispered has become overt, according to...

Meet Masud – Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Pakistan face prejudice, discrimination and attacks.

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The Ahmadiyya community of Pakistan face prejudice, discrimination and attacks. It is illegal for them to practise their religion. ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum’.  ‘Wa-Alaikum-Salaam’. Dr Masud and I exchange greetings in the mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Glasgow. That doesn’t sound too controversial, does it? However, if, instead of being in Scotland, we were in Lahore,...

A Report on Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan During the year 2017

Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan – 2017

Declaration of faith compulsory before seeking public office: Pakistani court

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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani high court on Friday ordered that anyone seeking public office should declare his religious belief, a verdict said to be a major victory for hardliners in the Muslim-majority country. Islamabad high court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiquiannounced the verdict in a case about controversial changes in the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat (finality of prophethood) oath in the Elections Act...

Indonesia’s Ahmadis: Refugees In Their Own Country

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A small building on the edge of a green rice field is the place Syahidin is raising his four children. Facing the area of rice fields the house which is located in Hamlet Ketapang, West Lombok, looks ideal for family living. Through the walls of the living room and bedroom, you can see the rice...

FIA asks IHC for more time to submit travel history of 6,000 Ahmedis

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ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has asked the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to grant more time for the submission of a report on the travel history of all the people who have changed their religious status from Muslim to Ahmedi on their CNICs. During the court proceedings, Allama Mohsin Naqvi gave religious references on the matter to aid...

PAKISTAN: Threats against Ahmadiyya Community on the Rise

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Open letter to Honorable Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Foreign Minister of Pakistan Vienna/Islamabad, 03.02.2018 (FOREF) – With great concern FOREF Europe has been observing the increasing rate of violations against fundamental freedoms in Pakistan. Threats against religious freedom have sparked accross the country. The Ahmadiyya community is one among several religious minorities that are seriously affected by...

Algeria: New Trials Shake Ahmadi Minority

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More Than 50 Tried in December on Charges Relating to Religion (Beirut) – Algerian authorities have stepped up trials of members of the Ahmadiyya religious minority on charges related to the exercise of their religion, Human Rights Watch said today. Sentences range from fines to a year in prison. Human Rights Watch received information that, in December...
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