Source: The Pioneer via Wasim Sroya:
Voices of sanity are steadily losing ground in Pakistan. Moderate elements are being harassed, physically assaulted and even killed by hardliners within and outside the administration
The 2.4 million Ahmadis in Pakistan are the most persecuted group in the country. Despite their reverence for the Prophet of Islam and for the Quran, Ahmadis are forbidden from describing themselves as Muslims or “posing” as Muslims. They are banned from calling their places of worship as Mosques. In recent days, the minarets in their mosques have been demolished. They now find the graves of their kin desecrated, if the gravestones carry Quranic quotations and their mosques attacked by zealots. Ninety five Ahmadis recently perished in a Taliban suicide bomb attack, while praying in their mosque. In India, however, the Kerala High Court held in 1970 that Ahmadi had every right to describe themselves as Muslims.