Express Tribune: Human rights activists have criticised the National Database and Registration Authority’s (NADRA) apparent policy to refuse to change ‘Islam’ as a person’s religion in their records. MPA Rana […]
Eurasiareview.com: By Murad Khan: The mother of a 6-month-old girl has been wrongly jailed for more than a month, as Pakistani authorities have failed to file a charge sheet within the […]
Dailytimes: LAHORE: The Anti-torture Alliance Pakistan (ATA-Pk) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Tuesday condemned the torturous murder of a schoolteacher by the Chenab Nagar Police a few […]
Courtesy: NY Times By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and VIKAS BAJAJ DHAKA, Bangladesh — A labor activist who was arrested two years ago for his role in protests against low wages in Bangladesh’s garment industry was found murdered outside this city last week, labor rights advocates and the police said on […]
Pakistan Today: By:Waqqas Mir: The year is 1948. Major Mahmud, an Ahmadi, is murdered in a manner described by the 1954 Justice Munir Report as “singularly brutal.” He is an army […]
Dawn.com: Syed Muhammad Haider; What Pakistan did Jinnah want?’ is a question still being debated some 65 years on since the partition. Did he intend to establish a secular Pakistan (a […]
Op Ed: New York Times: Nicholas D. Kristof; A FEW years ago, God seemed caught in a devil of a fight. Atheists were firing thunderbolts suggesting that “religion poisons everything,” as […]
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesian migrant workers are a step closer to securing legal recognition of their right to protection after the House of Representatives agreed in principle to ratify an international convention on the issue later this week. At a hearing between House Commission IX and officials from the Foreign […]
BBC: A group of Muslims in Hartlepool have helped to plant 450 trees in their home town. It is the latest volunteer project undertaken by the members of the Ahmadiyya […]
The Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: In the current atmosphere, standing up to the US and citing due process in defence of Saeed seems like a very attractive idea. A […]
Calgary Ahmadiyya Muslim Examiner: Deeba Chaudry: As Muslim, when one say “Assalamu Alaikum” means “May peace and blessings of God be upon you.” Can one imagine that Ahmadi Muslims in […]
The Atlantic Mobile: Heather Horn: On Wednesday, Nobel-winning German writer Günter Grass published a poem denouncing Israel’s nuclear program and aggression toward Iran. The poem, in which Grass says he […]
(Reuters) – The shooting began over the course of weeks, but if Bosnia’s war needs a beginning to mark, then it’s April 6, 1992, twenty years ago this Friday. That’s […]
Dailytimes.com: It seems that state officials are taking advantage of the discriminatory status of Ahmedis to freely brutalise members of the community. Police officials continuously persecute these people because of […]
Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-082-2012 April 8, 2012 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: No inquiry has yet been initiated in to […]
GMA News: Lately, there has been no shortage of press coverage on the religiosity of politicians. The current Vice-President Jejomar Binay projects himself as a devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — The girl’s screams were brittle and desperate. Neighbors in the suburban housing complex looked up and saw a child crying for help from an upstairs balcony. She was 13 and worked as a maid for a couple who had gone on […]
Daily Telegraph: This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate […]
Credit: Dawn.com via Wasim Sroya WHO was Master Abdul Qudoos Ahmad? How would you know even if you care? The 43-year-old schoolteacher’s story received scant attention in the media. Described by his students and peers as a well-known and ‘much-loved’ schoolteacher, perhaps far more ominously for him, he was also […]
INDIANAPOLIS — After the summons to worship, the Lord’s Prayer and the first hymn of the morning, the pastor of the South Calvary Missionary Baptist Churchhere asked the visitors to stand. […]