Abdul Salam, a member of the minority Ahmadi community, was brutally stabbed to death by ‘religious fanatic’ Hafiz Ali Raza apparently because of his faith, said senior police officer Muhammad […]
Here some definitions from various dictionaries: sect/ from internet search definition: a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong. Similar:(religious) cult religious group faith community denomination persuasion religious order splinter group faction schism heretical movement […]
Source: The Guardian A Pakistani man on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom, in the latest violent incident connected with the country’s blasphemy laws. Tahir Ahmed […]
Dawn: Nadeem Paracha: It is believed that Pakistan’s descent into the quagmire of violence, partaken in the name of religion has its roots in 1974 when the otherwise ‘secular’ government […]
Source: Hadi Aziz (Dec 11th, 2012) in The News Tribe. Islamabad: Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Defence Naveed Qamar on Tuesday said that no government employee has the authority to declare Ahmadis as Muslims. According to the constitution of Pakistan, Ahmadis are declared as non-Muslims and they cannot use anything having […]
Three alleged incidents in the past few days have gone relatively unnoticed: the desecration of over 120 Ahmadi community graves in close neighbourhood of the Sharifs’ mansions in Model Town, […]
Zhanibek Botoyev, the Chief Legal Expert of the State Commission on Religious Affairs, has revealed to Forum 18 News Service that plans are underway to try again in court to ban Kyrgyzstan’s Ahmadi Muslim community as “extremist”. The new attempt follows the failure on technical grounds in their first attempt. […]