Posted25 Jul 2024 Originally published25 Jul 2024 OriginView original GENEVA – A group of independent experts* today expressed grave concern regarding a reported upsurge in discrimination and violence against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, attacks on places of worship and curtailment of free expression, peaceful assembly and […]
AFP Published July 25, 2024 United Nations experts on Thursday voiced grave concern at reports of surging discrimination and violence against Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya minority community, including extrajudicial killings and attacks on places […]
The entrenched religious fanaticism in Pakistani society perpetuates a vicious cycle of violence and discrimination, with an alarming rise in blasphemy vigilantism. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, with roots tracing back to the British colonial legal system of 1860, were originally crafted to quell Hindu-Muslim violence in the Indian subcontinent. These archaic […]
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Ayesha Mahmood Malik – UKAHMADIYYA HISTORY•PERSECUTION 9th July 2024 His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh), the Fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, briefly stayed here before emigrating to […]
More than 800,000 Afghans are likely to be expelled in the second phase of the controversial plan. Video Duration 04 minutes 31 seconds04:31 Published On 30 Jun 202430 Jun 2024 Pakistan […]
30 June, 2024 In 1974, Ahmadi Muslims were declared a non-Muslim minority by the Pakistani parliament. Since then, it has become much harder for them to perform their religious duties, […]
Jun 28,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Shehab Al Makahleh In a chilling roundtable discussion attended by a diverse array of scholars, professors and experts from renowned universities, think tanks and policy institutes, the fragile state of global affairs took centre stage. With the esteemed Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard University […]
Staff Correspondent 28 June, 2024 The United States Department of State in its annual report on international religious freedom made allegations that law enforcement and government officials had stood by as […]
International Religious Freedom report notes that activists and members of minority communities said the country’s culture of impunity, along with state inaction, fueled hate crimes and blasphemy accusations Government departments […]
NEWS June 21, 2024 The Pakistani authorities must immediately end the harassment, intimidation and attacks on Ahmadiyya community and uphold their right to freedom of belief and religion in the […]
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Tahir Naqqash case, anti-Ahmadi discrimination continues to be sanctioned by state authorities. We would do well to recognize that this bigoted thought represents […]
Another lynching Editorial Published June 22, 2024 THE lynch mob has claimed another victim. This time the brutal incident occurred in Swat’s Madyan area on Thursday when a man accused of desecration was burnt […]
Story by Debdutta Chakraborty On Bakrid, Pakistani police made sure the Ahmadiyyas were harassed—arrests, meat raids, FIRs© Provided by ThePrint New Delhi: Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan wanted a simple thing– to celebrate a festival. But members of the historically persecuted community were arrested and harassed as they watched the police take meat away from their homes. The Pakistani state made sure they […]
Imran Gabol Published June 21, 2024 Updated about an hour ago Some people belonging to the Ahmadiyya community were detained by the police for violating the Constitution, Gujranwala City Police Officer (CPO) Rana Ayyaz Saleem said on Thursday. Earlier this week, a member of the Ahmadiyya community was booked in Toba Tek Singh district, at the […]
Dawn Report Published June 20, 2024 Updated about 5 hours ago TOBA TEK SINGH: An Ahmadiyya community man was arrested in a Gojra village on Eidul Azha day (Monday) on the charge of “portraying himself as a Muslim and sacrificing a goat like Muslims”. It happened in Chak 312-JB, Khattowali, and the complainant was […]
Ahmadiyya place of worship destroyed in AJK’s Kotli: community Community claims mob of 50 attacked place of worship WEB DESK Updated 18 Jun, 2024 PAKISTAN The Ahmadiyya place of worship was destroyed by unidentified men in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Kotli district on the first Eidul Azha day, the community […]
Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistanis from the minority Ahmadi community say they are under increasing pressure from authorities and Islamist groups ahead of the Eid al-Adha celebrations on Monday. Issued on: 15/06/2024 […]
Minority rights Arifa Noor Published June 11, 2024 JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL PERHAPS 2024 was always meant to be the year voters were going to knock some sense into those who grew […]