The Friday Times: There are nearly three million registered minority voters in Pakistan, according to NADRA, of which 200,000 belong to the Ahmadiyya Community. All of the minorities will cast their votes on May 11 under a joint electorate system, except the Ahmadis. There is a separate voters list for them, that has been alienating them from the democratic process since 1977.
The Ahmadiyya Community took part in the creation of Pakistan lending full support to All India Muslim League. At that time, Ahmadis were legally Muslims although many Muslim clerics believed they were not.
Sir Zafarullah Khan, Pakistan’s first foreign minister, was an Ahmadi. The only Pakistani Nobel laureate – Dr Abdus Salam – was also an Ahmadi.
The Ahmadiyya Community had been participating in the elections in India, and after 1947, they had been a part of the political process in Pakistan. They took part in the elections under a joint electorate system until 1977, despite the Second Amendment in the Constitution that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslim in 1974. It was military dictator Gen Ziaul Haq, who in a bid to legitimize his unconstitutional rule, wooed religious leaders by marginalizing the minorities by scrapping the joint electorate system in 1985 through the 8th Amendment to the Constitution. After that, there were separate electoral lists for minorities. Muslims voters had to sign an affidavit that said:
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…..And if you keep persisting in your injustice, you along with all your Mullahs, politicians (inclding the Playboy-Turned-Islamist dude) and all your sympathizers will spend much of your nights in the graves.
The founder of Pakistan M. A. Jinnah had left INDIAN POLITICS and was permanently living in London after becoming disgusted with Indian politics. The First Imam of the very First Mosque built by Muslims in London in 1926 Hadhrat Maulana Abdul Raheem Dard, under the instruction of Musleh Maood Hadhrat Mirza Bashir ud Din Mahmood Ahmad Khalifa tul Masih Sani persuaded MR. Jinnah to change his mind & return to Indian Politics to safeguard the RIGHTS of Muslims in India.Mr. Jinnah declared in the RECEPTION at the Ahmadiyya London Mosque,” the eloquent persuasion of the Imam (A R DARD) left me no escape” while speaking on the FUTURE OF INDIA as reported in the world press-had Jinnah not gone back to India there would have been no PAKISTAN. The contribution of AHMADIS in ESTABLISHING PAKISTAN is immense and historians can not ignore it at all!
That ECP officials should remember that their potential graves were not dug by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Those graves-in-waiting were dug by their Mullahs and the “wise” politicians of this unfortunate country. If they want to survive they have to fulfill the requirements of Justice,that is do away with all the injustices of the past and bravely apologize to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. This is the only way to stay away from the permanent hell that awaits them.