Guardian: Two Pakistani clerics have come to blows at a meeting of the religious establishment over the fraught issue of the status of Ahmadis, a Muslim sect that hardliners want declared apostates. A scuffle broke out on Tuesday between the two at a gathering of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology […]
Jinnah’s vision EDITORIAL — DAWN.COM 22 COMMENTS The frequent projection of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Aug 11 address to the Constituent Assembly creates an impression that this is the Quaid’s only speech that gives us his vision of Pakistan. On the contrary, throughout his political career, Jinnah made it repeatedly […]
Daily Star: Three people were injured during Juma prayers in a suicide bomb attack in this mosque on Friday. Police cordon off the Ahmadiyya mosque at Bagmara of Rajshahi to conduct investigations as curious onlookers crowd the scene. Photo: Banglar Chokh It was a suicide attacker who blew himself up […]
A member of Bangladeshi bomb disposal unit prepares to detonate homemade explosives seized from a building during a raid on a building where members of a banned Islamist group were detained in Mirpur area, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP) AFP, DhakaSaturday, 26 December 2015 The Islamic State of […]
Dec 25, 2015 15:45 IST Dhaka: A bomb exploded Friday at a mosque of the minority Ahmadi Muslim group in Bangladesh’s northwestern town of Bagmara leaving the suspected suicide bomber dead and four other people injured, police said. Police said the bomb blast occurred when the small Ahmadiya Muslim Jamaat […]
Posted: 12/22/2015 Saima Baig Blasphemy is a crime in Pakistan, the punishment for which can be death. The law is a left over of the Indian Penal Code that the British had introduced, and which was later expanded upon by the military dictator Zia ul Haq. More often […]
Source: ET It is as if the sectarian mobs have started taking turns targeting a different minority every month, putting Pakistan to shame internationally. This time, the Ahmadis are in the spotlight — again. First, we saw the disturbances in Jhelum and now there are hate posters at Hafeez Centre, […]
Source: ET LAHORE: Gulberg police arrested two traders on Sunday for putting up notices containing degrading remarks for Ahmadiyya community at the entrance of their shops at Hafeez Centre, said a handout issued by Operations DIG Haider Ashraf. The traders identified as Abid Hashmi and Nauman were presented before a judicial […]
Ahmadi bookstore owner and manager arrested under blasphemy law Pakistani authorities have arrested two Ahmadi Muslim men for alleged Blasphemy. Bookstore owner Abul Shukoor and manager Mazhar Ahmad were arrested Wednesday, Dec. 2 from Ahmadiyya Book Depot in Rabwah. Both men were taken to an unknown location after their arrest. […]
Source: The Express Tribune LAHORE: The district administration in Lahore on Thursday removed anti-Ahmadi posters and stickers from the city’s largest mobile and computer equipment market. Numerous shopkeepers in Lahore’s Hafeez Centre, […]
Huff Post: Recently, a bloodthirsty mob torched an Ahmadi owned factory in the Pakistani city of Jhelum. In contrast to Canada, where communities galvanize against hate, there were no rallies in defence of Ahmadi neighbours, and social media was ablaze with their “heresies” instead of condemnation of persecution. However, outside […]
No parliament has the right, no matter how sovereign, to determine the faith of an individual citizen. This is not the job of a parliament. It is God’s job Yasser […]
By Farrukh Khan Pitafi Published: November 27, 2015 The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist and tweets @FarrukhKPitafi Ishtiaq Ahmed, author of hundreds of children’s books, died this month. What struck me after hearing the news was the sheer number of admirers I came across on social media that day, […]
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION November 28, 2015 The world had hardly come to terms with the shock and horror of the burning down of a chipboard factory by an enraged mob led by misanthropic mullahs when news has emerged of another attack. This time an Ahmadi Muslim mosque in Kala […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Abbis Haider The author is a graduate of King Edward Medical University and has studied journalism and sociology from Punjab University. He is currently […]
Source: Tribune ISLAMABAD: “Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously whenAFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadi minority, […]
Source:ET ISLAMABAD: The police are responsible for the Jhelum tragedy as the high-ups failed to address the religious sentiments of a mob which not only led to displacement of some 1,200 Ahmadiyya community members but also caused them huge business losses, according to a preliminary report said presented to Prime Minister […]
Source: pressahmadiyya.com Thousands converge on chip-board factory and residential area owned by Ahmadi Muslims. An extremist mob numbering thousands attempted to murder Ahmadi Muslims at a chip-board factory in Jhelum, Pakistan, […]
AYESHA ALI — —Creative commons Welcome, to the beautiful land of the pure. Here, we are blessed with four wondrous seasons and the geographical features are aplenty. This is a land hard won through the sacrifices of many and now, you too, are a part of this nation of the […]
Army called out to quell Jhelum riots By Our Correspondent / Arsalan AltafPublished: November 22, 2015 Tribune.com.pk Authorities called out the army on Saturday to quell violent protests triggered by […]