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Anti-Ahmadi conference in Rabwah

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Rabwah; 7 September 2022: To commemorate the ratification of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims, rallies were held on 7 September. A number of influential scholars made speeches against Ahmadi Muslims stating that they were apostates, outside the circle of Islam, and spreading lies that the community was...

Ahmadi Muslims made to remove minarets from mosque

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On 30 August 2022, members of the extremist party Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) wrote to the police complaining that Ahmadis had installed minarets on their mosque in Mityal, District Jhelum. The following day, the police instructed them to take down the minarets, but when the Ahmadis refused to do it the police threatened the Ahmadiyya...

Ahmadiyya Muslim cemetery desecrated in Faisalabad

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In Chak 203 RB Manawala, District Faisalabad, from 21 to 22 August 2022, 16 Ahmadi Muslim graves were desecrated in a cemetery that has been active since the Partition in 1947. Over the past year, the burials of two Ahmadis have been disrupted. Even after death, Ahmadi Muslims are still denied peace. Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim...

400-Strong mob attacks family of Ahmadi Muslim war hero

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Mr Abdul Shakoor was an Ahmadi soldier who fought in the 1971 war for Pakistan. On 6 August this year, his son, Mr Shamshad Ahmad, his sister, and his mother were invited to District Sahiwal for the installation of a memorial board in his honour. A mob of around four hundred was mobilised by two...

Ahmadi Muslims targeted on social media

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In the Lahore Laser Eye Hospital and Madina Hospital Pattoki, District Kasur, Ahmadi Muslims working there were targeted in a widespread leafleting campaign. The anti-Ahmadi leaflets labelled the hospital as a ‘Mirzai [derogatory term for Ahmadi Muslims] Hospital’ and were shared on social media. Worryingly, they also featured photos of the hospital owner and the...

Pakistani man from minority Ahmadi community stabbed to death over faith: Police

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Lahore, May 18 (PTI) A 35-year-old Pakistani man belonging to the minority Ahmadi community has been stabbed to death by a “religious fanatic” over his faith in the country’s Punjab province, the police said on Wednesday. Pakistan’s Parliament in 1974 declared the Ahmadi community as non-Muslims. A decade later, they were banned from calling themselves...

3 men blamed for ‘sharing distorted version of Quran’

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LAHORE: Denying post-arrest bail to three members of the Ahmadi community in a case about sharing a distorted version of the Holy Quran in a WhatsApp group, the Lahore High Court has observed that declaring a person may transmit any offensive material if he/she is not its author thereof would be a recipe for disaster....

Human rights organisations alarmed over recent persecution of Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan

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Many international human rights organisations are alarmed over the recent persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan The International Forum for Right and Security (IFFRAS) said that the organisations are documenting the systematic persecution (/topic/persecution) endured by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community at the hands of religious extremists and state institutions. In the latest incident, a...

Right to Freedom of Belief Under ‘Sustained Attack’ in Pakistan, Warns ICJ

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International Commission of Jurists urges Islamabad to take human rights abuses against minorities ‘seriously’ and recommends repeal of blasphemy laws Pakistan must urgently respond to serious and ongoing persecution of citizens from religious minority groups by state and non-state actors, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said last week. “The Pakistani authorities have shamefully failed...

How social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan

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If you’re one of four million Ahmadis in Pakistan, posting on Facebook can mean exposing yourself to danger. Last fall, in a corporate office in Lahore, 25-year-old Siraj, a fintech professional just two months into his new job, listened in as his colleagues discussed a murder over lunch. Two months earlier, a teenage boy had walked...
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