Source: dawn.com GUJRANWALA: A pall of fear hangs thick over Gujranwala’s now eerily silent People’s Colony. It has been weeks since an enraged mob set fire to five homes belonging to […]
ET: The recent act of violence against Ahmadis in Gujranwala is part of a series of such events, which have been taking place in Pakistan for many decades now. While […]
local21news.com: At a time when violence is escalating around the world, one group is holding a peace conference in Harrisburg this weekend. More than 6,000 people from all over the world are at the Farm Show Complex and this is the 66th year for the conference. The guest speakers focus […]
pennlive.com: by Julianne Mattera — Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA’s 66th annual weekend peace convention, the Jalsa Salana, continues at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. A poster board tells the story of Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar, an American cardiologist who was shot dead in Pakistan […]
Reuters: Reporting by Ranga Sirilal; Writing by Shihar Aneez; Editing by Larry King COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Sri Lankan court on Friday ordered authorities to stop deporting Pakistani asylum seekers, following a complaint they were being forcibly sent home without having their claims properly assessed. The United Nations refugee […]
Dawn.com: by Faisal Bari — Ahmadis have been hounded out of jobs; they have been booked for ‘preaching’ their religion; they have been asked to remove Quranic verses from their places of worship; some have been denied burial space in graveyards. A fellow citizen and a friend, a Christian by […]
Huff Post: With the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Dominion of Pakistan came into existence on Aug. 14, 1947. The valiant and astute Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the minority Muslim community of United India to the fulfillment of its dream for a separate homeland. The basis for the very […]
For most Muslims, Eid marks the happy end to a month of fasting and spiritual development. It is a day filled with prayers, warm embraces and the smiling faces of children as they open their presents. For extremists, however, Eid only brings joy if it is coloured by the blood […]
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Source: starconnectmedia.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria has demanded for an urgent enquiry into the killing of three Ahmadiyya female members including an eight month old infant in arson attack in […]
Telegrapgh.co.uk: by Adam Walker — For most Muslims, Eid marks the happy end to a month of fasting and spiritual development. It is a day filled with prayers, warm embraces and the smiling faces of children as they open their presents. For extremists, however, Eid only brings joy if it […]
Source: pressahmadiyya.com In this month’s issue we regret to report the murder of four Ahmadi Muslims. Two victims were children, attacked by Anti-Ahmadiyya Mobs who set their homes on fire, while […]
Jinnah Institute: By Yasser Latif Hamdani On 11 August 1947, the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (“PCA”) met for the first time. The inaugural session was presided by Shri Jogindranath Mandal, president of the Scheduled Caste Federation and a member from East Pakistan. In this session, the PCA elected Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]
The News: Special Report Being Ahmadi I.A. Rehman August 10, 2014 Leave a comment The sufferings of the Ahmadis are not confined to killings and destruction of their property. Their whole generations have been forced to stay imprisoned within their mental recesses Read More » “What needs to be curtailed […]
The sufferings of the Ahmadis are not confined to killings and destruction of their property. Whole generations of their young men and women have been forced to stay imprisoned within their mental recesses. Forty years ago Zulfikar Ali Bhutto claimed credit for solving the 90-year-old problem relating to the status […]
Lutfblogs: What do you imagine the front line against Islamist extremism looks like? Will this war fix anything? Image courtesy Stars and Stripes. Does it comprise of NATO led troops, security agencies and hired guns fighting against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan? Or is it the […]
HRW: (New York) – Pakistan’s government should rescind the suspension of fundamental rights and the grant of military authority for law enforcement in Islamabad, Human Rights Watch said today. Powers given to the military risk misuse in the face of ongoing large-scale political protests. “Pakistan faces very real threats of terrorism, […]
AMYA: Does Islam sanction murder in foreign lands? Does jihad entail forcing Islam on the unwilling? Is militant terrorism ever justified by the Qur’an or the practice of the Prophet Muhammad […]
Aljazeera: Rabwah, Pakistan – Seeing her lying in her hospital bed, it’s difficult to tell what Mubashara Jarra has been through. Outwardly, she appears fine. No intravenous tubes snaking into her body, and no bandages covering up her wounds. “I’m feeling much better,” she says, in a low voice. It is, […]
The Diplomat: While South Asian human rights discourse, including both Indian and Pakistani, is obsessed by the issue of Palestine, a cause that has little real relevance to the region, numerous violent incidents closer to home get scant attention, such as the violence in Xinjiang, China, just over the border […]