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Religious Freedom Undermined:The Sani Case and Pakistan’s Legal Crisis

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The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s recent reversal in the Mubarak Sani case, where Sani faced charges under some of Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws and for distributing an Ahmadi religious text, threatens religious freedom and minority rights in the country. The case reveals how religious and political pressures are influencing Pakistan’s judiciary and weakening its independence....

Police Demolish Minarets of Ahmadi Muslim Mosque in Okara, Pakistan 

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On the 10 of September, police officials, under the leadership of the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), demolished the minaret and erased the Islamic inscriptions at the Ahmadi Muslim mosque, in Dipalpur, Okara.  According to witnesses, two police vehicles, carrying between 12 to 14 officers from the Dipalpur police station, arrived at the camp on...

Pakistani cleric incites crowd  to kill Ahmadi Muslims

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On 7 September 2024, Pakistan marked 50 years since the constitutional amendment that declared Ahmadi Muslims as non-Muslims, initiating decades of state-sponsored persecution.  To commemorate this, the far-right religious party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) held a large rally at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan, where several clerics, including Manzoor Mengal, delivered inflammatory speeches.   Mengal repeatedly declared that Ahmadis are...

PAKISTAN: Political Injustice – the ongoing persecution of Ahmadi Muslims

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By Fareed Ahmad for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (30.08.2024) – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan is enduring an alarming rise in violence and systemic persecution in 2024, with a disturbing trend of targeted murders, desecration of mosques and graves, and the continued denial of basic civil rights. This year, up to July 2024 alone,...

Pakistan Top Court Amends Religious Freedom Ruling After Protests

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A judge in Pakistan on Thursday said the country’s Supreme Court would amend a ruling that recognised some religious freedoms for the persecuted Ahmadiyya minority, after weeks of widespread protests from far-right Islamist groups. The Ahmadiyya sect, considered heretical by fundamentalist groups, has been persecuted for decades in Pakistan, but threats and intimidation have risen...

Pakistan: Islamist mob storm Supreme Court, demand Chief Justice’s resignation over Ahmadiyya Blasphemy case ruling

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The controversy began after Justice Isa’s bench ordered the release of Mubarak Ahmad Sani, an Ahmadiyya man accused of blasphemy. Sani was charged under the Punjab Holy Quran (Printing and Recording). A massive demonstration has erupted in Pakistan, with thousands of protesters marching under the banner “Sar tan se juda” (behead them), targeting Supreme Court...

Pakistan, Council of Islamic Ideology Asks for Even Harsher Persecution of the Ahmadis

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While the legal saga of Mubarak Ahmed Sani remains subject to conflicting interpretations, what is clear is that Sunni authorities want the repression to continue. The battle about the Mubarak Ahmed Sani case and the decision issued last February by the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court is difficult to understand for non-Pakistanis, primarily because...

Mubarak Sani case: Khatam-e-Nabuwat leaders give SC Sept 7 deadline to review verdict

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Police fired couple of teargas shells but protesters stood defiant. ISLAMABAD: The participants of Majlis Tahaffuz Khatam-e-Nabuwat (SAW) march picketed in front of the Supreme Court on Monday after pushing back the local police and gave the apex court Sept 07 deadline to review its verdict in Mubarak Sani case. Led by JUIF leader Maulana...

Ahmadi Muslims in Bangladesh: A Community under siege amidst political turmoil

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Bangladesh is currently engulfed in widespread political turmoil, with Ahmadi Muslims also finding themselves in an increasingly precarious situation. Disturbing images and horrifying reports from the general public are circulating on social media platforms revealing a grim picture of the crisis. One Ahmadi witness writes on social media:  “They are inside Jamia with 40 other...

SCBAP Demands Supreme Court Review Verdict Permitting Ahmadis To Profess, Preach Religion

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Top bar association argues that the Constitution is based on an Islamic framework and Sections 295-B and 298-B are applicable even inside places of worship The Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBAP) has demanded that the Supreme Court reconsider paragraph 42 of its order, which permits members of the Ahmadiyya Community/Qadianis to profess or...
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