Pakteahouse: Usman Ahmad: Prior to anything else being said, let it be clearly stated that the recent murder of Master Abdul Qudoos at the hands of the police is not an ‘Ahmadi’ issue, but a human rights one. So before the trolls infect the comments section and begin to abuse the beliefs of Ahmadis with their obtuse invectives or hatch conspiracy theories that Pak Tea House is secretly run by ‘Qadianis’ who in turn are sponsored by Mossad/RAW/the CIA/MI5, they would do well to remember that if acts such as these are allowed to gain currency then all our civil and civic rights will be at stake.

Institutions like the state, the judiciary, the police are created in society in order to protect and serve the people. But when these actors become discriminators, when those who are meant to protect become oppressors and when law-makers and law-enforcers seek to become God’s and forget what it is to be human then the collapse of any social order can be deemed as absolute and total.

Below are the facts of the case, they require no commentary, no analysis, no explanation; they are in themselves so harrowing and bleak that any further scrutiny would dilute the narrative of the despicable affair.

On, February 10 of this year, Master Abdul Qudoos Ahmad was taken into police custody in connection with the Murder of Muhammad Yousuf, a stamp-paper seller. No charges were ever brought against him, no evidence was ever brought to light to implicate him in the affair. Yet despite this, he was relentlessly tortured by police officials during the period of his incarceration. This included……

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