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Faran Shaheen

Pakistan: Discrimination Against Ahmadis Extends to Hospitals

One of the banners displayed in front of the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad. From Twitter. The Pakistan Medical Association displayed anti-Ahmadi banners in front of the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad and called for discrimination of the Ahmadi patients. On April 4, I led a delegation of scholars attending a religious liberty conference to visit the...

Positive signs for Ahmadi Muslim lawyers in Pakistan

In a response to the Chair of the Bar of England and Wales, the Chair of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has signalled that there must be no restrictions on Ahmadi Muslims practising as lawyers in Pakistan. The clarification that a bar on Ahmadi Muslims would be unconstitutional has been issued after Nick Vineall KC,...

The Muslims being hounded by Islamic zealots

Ahmadi Muslims are among the primary targets of the war on ‘blasphemy’. Politicians and pundits rarely miss an opportunity to talk up the need to combat anti-Muslim prejudice in the UK. Indeed, all Britain’s major political parties (apart from the Tories) have even adopted the questionable definition of ‘Islamophobia’ formulated by the All Party Parliamentary Group...

UK Government Presses Pakistan on Rights of Ahmadi Citizens

On the 19th of February 2024, Lord David Alton posed the following query in writing to the Minister of State, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon. ”To ask His Majesty’s Government when they last held discussions regarding the civil and democratic rights of Ahmadi citizens in Pakistan with (1) the government of Pakistan, and (2) with the Secretary General of...

Ahmadi Muslim Mosque Attacked by Extremists in Kotli, Pakistan

12th February 2024 Another Ahmadi Muslim mosque has been attacked in Bhabra, Kotli, A.J.K.in Pakistan by extremists. Sunday’s attack occurred at 10:45am, when around 60 extremists armed with guns, hammers and shovels destroyed the minarets of the mosque and brutally attacked Ahmadis leaving them needing hospital treatment. Ahmadi men and five women were severely beaten...

Five Women Among Eight Injured As Armed Mob Targets Ahmadi Worship Place In AJK

More than 50 attackers equipped with hammers, shovels, and sticks stormed the Ahmadis’ worship place and demolished its four minarets. At least five women among eight people belonging to the Ahmadiyya Community sustained serious injuries when miscreants attacked a worship place of the community in Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday....

‘Why single us out?’ Pakistan’s Ahmadi minority boycotts election, again

The community was officially declared ‘non-Muslim’ four decades ago. Today, it is increasingly under attack. Islamabad, Pakistan – Amir Mahmood remembers a meeting between top officials of Pakistan’s government last September. He can’t forget how the community, for long a victim of persecution in the country, saw a decline in attacks on its graves and shrines...

Ahmadis protest against separate voter list

Islamabad: Ahmadis have decided to ‘‘dissociate’’ themselves from the coming elections in protest against the exclusion of their names from the joint voters’ list, according to a statement issued by the community’s media office on Thursday. The statement said that elections were being conducted on the basis of a joint electorate, but a separate list...

More Attacks On Ahmadi Graves

Two incidents of violence against the Ahmadi community were seen again. This time the incidents took place in Daska and in Bharoke on January 24, 2024. It was alleged that in Daska, the area police desecrated Ahmadi graves and tombstones. After a hiatus of a few weeks, two incidents of violence against the Ahmadi community were seen...

Dozens Of Tombstones Desecrated At Two Ahmadiyya Graveyards In Punjab

The tombstones at graveyards in Daska and Bharoke were desecrated not by vandals but by the local administration and police The Punjab district administration, along with the police, allegedly desecrated dozens of tombstones at two graveyards belonging to the Ahmadiyya community. Community members said that police in Daska desecrated dozens of epitaphs at an Ahmadiyya graveyard. They...
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