Friday Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: On 25 August, 2012 former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani attended the Khatm-e-Nabuwat Conference in Golra in Islamabad. Talking to reporters after the conference, the former prime minister said the mission of Pir Mehar Ali Shah, the patron saint of Golra, came to its fruition in 1974. It was a reference to the excommunication of Ahmadis by the Parliament. The community was declared nonMuslim through a constitutional amendment by the Pakistan People’s Party government in 1974. The PPP views the amendment as a feather in its cap and many of its first rank leaders are known to proudly state that their party did Islam a favour.
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 Kalima written on the tombstone of an Ahmadi grave is erased with black paint |
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Things evidently were not always like this for Ahmadis. Having supported the All India Muslim League in the 1940s, Ahmadis – being an educated and enterprising community – contributed significantly to the development of the new state. There was always opposition to them but the state was forthright in putting down disturbances as it did in 1953.
The Munir Report is an early example of state institutions fairly carrying out their responsibilities undeterred by religious extremism.
Categories: Ahmadis And Pakistan, Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Asia