Source: August 5, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 Britain will deport a man its immigration services believe his life would be threatened if he returned to his home in Pakistan. The UK Home Office is to deport an Ahmadi Muslim, Ali Adnan Munir from the United Kingdom next week […]
Tribune: A recent report by the Hudson Institute paints a damning portrait of Pakistan as a country where its Ahmadi community is arrested for propagating their faith, has its places of worship destroyed over allegations of blasphemy, has its businesses and products boycotted, and its deceased’s’ graves desecrated with impunity. […]
Source: philly.com ISSUE | TERRORISM Priest’s killing a sin Two men, purportedly “soldiers of the Islamic State,” killed an 85-year-old priest in Normandy, France, Tuesday (“France recoils at priest killing,” Wednesday). The prophet Muhammad commanded, in a covenant with St. Catherine’s monastery, that Christians should not be “offended or disturbed or […]
Source: stv.tv The mother and son, living in Glasgow, fear persecution if they return to Pakistan. Islam: Ahmadi Muslim mosque in Glasgow’s west end. Google 2016 A judge has ordered the home secretary to reconsider granting asylum to two Ahmadi Muslims who fear persecution in their native Pakistan. Lord Glennie ruled […]
Tribune: Although the Ahmadi community is one of the most persecuted minorities in Pakistan, they enjoy religious freedom and full rights in the United States. Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney and […]
S.Mubashir Noor Two Ahmadis were gunned down in Karachi recently. On June 20, a homeopathic doctor named Abdul Khaliq fell to unknown assailants in Malir district. This followed the brazen drive-by shooting of Dawood Ahmad in Gulshan-e-Iqbal town less than a month earlier. Neither killings registered on the 24/7 news […]
Economist: WHEN a newly arrived migrant seeks asylum on grounds that going home would mean facing religous persecution, how can the host country test the sincerity of that claim? That is a hard question, especially if the migrant has only recently converted to a different faith. It’s also a very […]
By Zia Ur Rehman June 29, 2016 6 0 Karachi How are sectarian tensions handled and laws applicable? How severe are the issues of hate speech and discrimination against minorities? These burning questions were discussed by the participants of a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan expert group meeting on Tuesday. […]
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN > PUNJAB By Rana TanveerPublished: June 25, 2016 LAHORE: The unrelenting nationwide anti-Ahmadiyya campaign took a perturbing turn on Friday with a preeminent body calling for donations to curb Ahmadiyyat worldwide with an advert placed across all editions of a leading Urdu daily. The move […]
June 21, 2016 RECORDER REPORT The management of Aaj TV and organisation’s staff members have unwavering faith in the finality of prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). This was stated by Shahab Zuberi, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aaj TV, in his meeting with a […]
A 50-year-old doctor, belonging to the Ahmadi community, was gunned down in his clinic in the Abul Hasan Ispahani area of Karachi on Monday evening. Reportedly, the murder of Dr Chaudhary Abdul Khaleeq was second such incident in the same vicinity within a month. He was shot in his clinic […]
BlogOpinion Anonymous June 21, 2016 This week, PEMRA banned public figures Hamza Abbasi and Maulana Noorani from appearing on broadcast media and discussing anything related to the Ahmadiyya community. While both bans may have made sense to many Pakistanis, one of them stands on shaky legal ground. Unless a […]
Junaid Jahangir Become a fanAssistant Professor – MacEwan University Posted: 06/20/2016 When a popular TV talk show host in Pakistan, Hamza Ali Abbasi, questioned the right of the state to brand a minority Muslim group as non-Muslim, social media went ablaze with calls for Abbasi’s death. While Abbasi would get […]
BY SATP JUNE 21, 2016 By Ambreen Agha* The Ordinance promulgated by the President (of Pakistan) on April 26, 1984, goes a long way in accepting the most extreme demands and transforms much of the daily life of the Community into a criminal offence. — Yohanan Friedman, Prophecy Continuous (1989) […]
Source. Watsapp. In Karachi Ch Khaleeq Ahmad age 50 embraced Shahadat today. Innahlillahe Wainnah elehe rajeoon. Details awaited.
As much as Jinnah is revered now even by religious groups, what many people don’t know or overlook is that throughout his political life Jinnah shared a close affinity with […]
By Life&Style Published: June 18, 2016 As the ineffable media policing continues. PHOTO: FASHIONCENTRAL Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) surprised the Pakistani audience yesterday by banning actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s Ramazan transmission. The ban was imposed over violation of the media regulator’s code of conduct as Pemra found Hamza […]
By Saqib Gul | ثاقب گل @SaqibGul01 The moment Hamza Ali Abbasi announced to conduct a program for Ahmadis he has been subject to fury from Muslims. Such a reaction is […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has barred actor Hamza Ali Abbasi and TV show host Shabbir Abu Talib from hosting their Ramazan shows on Aaj TV […]
By Life&Style Published: June 12, 2016 The actor and social activist questioned the oppression of Ahmadis. PHOTO: FACEBOOK Hamza Ali Abbasi has arrived everyone. Practice makes perfect. After numerous social media posts that only received the ire of many, Hamza has finally done something many in his position wouldn’t dare to […]