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Blackening of Ahmadi Muslim Tombstones in Vehari 

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On 25 September in Chak 363/EB, Vehari district, police officers defaced 13 tombstones belonging to Ahmadi Muslims in response to pressure from local extremists. The tombstones bore Islamic inscriptions, which extremists found offensive.   A WhatsApp message circulated by local activists from Tehreek-e-Labbaik, a far-right religious extremist organisation, called for the removal of the inscriptions,...

Cleric-Led Protest and Threats Against Ahmadi Muslim Mosque in Lahore 

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On 22 September, a large protest led by clerics and activists from Tehreek-e-Labbaik, a far-right religious extremist organisation, took place outside the Baitul Zikr mosque in Islamia Park, Lahore. Approximately 300 to 400 clerics and their followers gathered, chanting slogans and calling for the immediate closure of the mosque. The protest was the culmination of...

College teacher’s position terminated in Pakistan’s Punjab after being outed as an Ahmadi

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The JAP said that discriminating against and harassing someone based on their beliefs is a severe violation of human rights and Pakistan’s Constitution and the laws are clear on this matter. Lahore: A college teacher belonging to the Ahmadi minority community has been terminated following a large scale protest by students at a college in...

Pakistan: 40-Year-Old Minarets At Ahmadi Worship Place Demolished In Punjab Province

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Police allegedly demolished the minarets of a 40-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi community in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan said on Monday. The incident took place in Okara, Depalpur, about 130 kilometres from Lahore. Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan (JAP) official Amir Mahmood told PTI on Monday that over a dozen policemen of Punjab police...

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...
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