Exclusive by Peter Swindon, Group Investigations Writer Sunday 27 March 2016 / News The family of a Pakistan-born man who died following a suspected “religiously prejudiced” attack linked to sectarian tensions within the Scottish Muslim community have spoken of their fears for their own safety. Shopkeeper Asad Shah, 40, […]
Tribune: LAHORE: The Punjab Housing and Town Planning Agency (PHTPA) on Tuesday auctioned residential and commercial plots in Chiniot district following the placement of an advert that excluded Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya adherents from the proceedings. Chenab Nagar, the headquarters of the JA, is situated in the district. The agency’s regional office in Jhang […]
UMER ALI Full of contradictions The hanging of Mumtaz Qadri united all religio-political parties last week as together they protested against it. Blocking roads, closing down markets forcibly, thrashing journalists and attacking media houses for not covering their protests – all was done to send a message that come what […]
The Daily Times: Did the Holy Prophet (PBUH) not repeatedly forgive those who slandered him and attacked him? In this space, I have continuously written about the threat that an overbearing clergy poses to a state that is attempting to relearn moderation after spending a large part of the last […]
02/29/2016 Aparna PandeDirector, India Initiative, Hudson Institute The execution in Pakistan of Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri — the bodyguard who in 2011, under influence of religious zealots, killed secular Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer — has strategically coincided with the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue taking place in Washington DC. Given Pakistan’s history […]
An Ahmadi believer was stabbed to death near Punjab’s Sheikhupura district on Tuesday. According to details, two unidentified assailants attacked Qamarul Zia, 35, as he came out of his house in Kot Abdul Malik […]
Written by Abdul Alim: Before it gets out of hand, let us inject a sense of sobriety in what is seen to be a “turning around” of Pakistan. Optimistic elements desperate for signs of hope, have cast the hosting of Oscar winning Shirmin Chinoy in Prime Minister’s house, the passing […]
Quartz: A few weeks back I was in a mosque, decrying the scourge of sectarianism. (I’d been invited to speak, to be clear: I wasn’t just monologuing uninvited.) In too many places, I noted, Sunni and Shia Muslims are not just at odds with each other, they’re at war. To […]
Lankaweb: In Pakistan organisations like Khatme Nubuwwat have been allowed to grow and flourish and they now yield considerable power and influence over the government. Their religious ideology is now intrinsically woven into the political structure leading to extremism that has now spiralled out of control. “…..it is now beyond […]
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Ashok Malik | Farahnaz Ispahani in her book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities, bravely records not just the near-annihilation of religious minorities in Pakistan, but also the intensifying sectarian conflict Farahnaz Ispahani’s recent book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s […]
Shakoor bhai, an eighty-year-old bookseller from Rabwah, is the latest victim of persecution for being an Ahmadi. He was arrested for stocking and selling books that had either been banned through an official notification issued by the government of Punjab or were likely to cause disorder. He was prosecuted under […]
Tribune: ISLAMABAD: It is important to talk about issues considered a taboo and an attitudinal change is required to protect Pakistani minorities. This was consented at the launch of Jinnah Institute’s (JI) report ‘State of religious freedom in Pakistan’ and screening of its documentary, ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’, on Tuesday. […]
http://kashifmd.com: Mullahs (clergy) from all sects have been opposing the Ahmadi Muslims since the inception of the community by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) in 1889. Many leading clerics of United India called for a complete boycott of Ahmadis and incited attacks on them. They boasted that Ahmadiyyat would die in a […]
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani As a Congressman, Jinnah viewed with suspicion the creation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and was trenchantly opposed to the […]
Source: Dawn.com By Pervez Hoodbhoy THE mosque in Pakistan is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically […]
Tribune: LAHORE: A citizen was compelled on Tuesday to move the district and sessions court after being cautioned against perusing Ahmadiyya literature. Petitioner Bilal Munawar told the court that some individuals had threatened to kill him after learning that he was reading Ahmadiyya texts. Munawar said he was a faithful, law […]
BY RABIA AHMED Bias has much to do with systems that are being eroded in Pakistan It’s interesting how the blowback following recent terrorist incidents has forced people all over the world to re-examine their convictions. You wish we’d do the same, here in Pakistan. Dr Larycia Hawkins, who […]
Ahmad, younger brother of Darul Yamen chapter president, Ghulam Tahir, is reported to be approximately 25 years of age. He was employed by Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistan. Ahmadiyya Times | […]
Pakistan Today: By Rabia Ahmad: It’s interesting how the blowback following recent terrorist incidents has forced people all over the world to re-examine their convictions. You wish we’d do the same, here in Pakistan. Dr Larycia Hawkins, who teaches political science at Wheaton College near Chicago, remarked on Facebook recently […]
http://dailykashmirimages.com: A month ago, an 81-year-old Muslim bookseller in New York was caught with a copy of the Holy Quran. The FBI arrested him promptly, and just two days back, an anti-terrorism court in Washington DC sentenced him to eight years in prison with a hefty fine. Christian leaders across […]