Pakistan

End targeting of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Source: washingtontimes.com | MOHAMMAD IQBAL KHAN, Aberdeen, Md. A young man was fatally shot in front of his shop a few days ago in Nawabshah, Pakistan. Imtiaz Ahmad was an Ahmadi Muslim and the youth leader of his local chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He leaves behind his wife, three sons and father. It was […]

Enforcing respect by ordinance?

Daily Times: The PML-N’s rise to power has brought back, to some extent, the straitjacket religiosity of General Zia’s dark years in power. The ministry of religious affairs, in the beginning of this Ramzan, was pleased draw the attention of the public to the ‘Ehteram-e-Ramzan Ordinance 1981’ (the Respect of […]

Religious freedom in peril

Written by Nicholas Kristof | sacbee.com This is a sensitive area I’m wading into here, I realize. A Sudanese court in May sentences a Christian woman married to an American to be hanged, after first being lashed 100 times, after she refuses to renounce her Christian faith. Muslim extremists in Iraq demand that Christians […]