Courtesy Dawn News: ………When it comes to Ahmadi students, the state and society tolerates deliberate violations of their fundamental human rights. It was only in September 2011 when two schools in Dharinwala village in Faisalabad expelled 10 Ahmadi students for their religious beliefs. Earlier in 2008, 23 Ahmadi students were expelled from a Medical College in Faisalabad. In both instances, Ahmadi students were forced to beg for admissions elsewhere while the government did precious little to safeguard their rights enshrined in the Constitution. Again, these academic institutions were supposed to be secular, but they acted more radically than madrassas.
The report found several other systematic violations of Article 22 where mainstream non-religious subjects were found to be infused with religious sermons thus forcing non-Muslim students to receive Islamic education. Consider for instance Meri Kitab, which is a required text textbook for grade one students in most public schools. Seven out of 16 chapters in Meri Kitab contained religious sermons. The report also found that textbooks were filled with disparaging remarks about the Hindus, while never mentioning that for centuries Muslims and Hindus had lived peacefully in the subcontinent.
One would have hoped to see public school teachers to be more tolerant and accommodating of religious minorities. However, the report found that an overwhelming majority of public school teachers (almost 80 per cent) viewed non-Muslims as “enemies of Islam”. The study also revealed that most madrassa teachers recognised religious minorities as bonafide citizens of Pakistan. However, only 60 per cent of public school teachers viewed non-Muslims as full citizens of the state.