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کہاں کا انتخاب، کون سا الیکشن؟

BBC Urdu ملک کے طول و عرض میں الیکشن کی گہماگہمی عروج پر ہے اور آج انتخابی مہم کا آخری دن ہے۔ اسی طرح انتخابات اور اس کے بعد آنے….Read more


Ahmadis yet again become a target of persecution

In yet another incident of minorities’ prosecution, five members of the Ahmadi community were dragged on Tuesday from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained for several hours by….Read more


Pakistani minorities leery of democracy

The Japan Times LAHORE, PAKISTAN – In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan’s….Read more


All of Pakistan’s minorities will vote on May 11, except the Ahmadis

The Friday Times There are nearly three million registered minority voters in Pakistan, according to NADRA, of which 200,000 belong to the Ahmadiyya Community. All of the minorities will cast….Read more


Old rules in New Pakistan

Global Post KARACHI, Pakistan — For the last two years, former cricketing superstar Imran Khan has been trumpeting talk of change to Pakistan’s public. Standing in front of beloved national….Read more


The Pakistan general election is fast approaching – but one community will not be casting votes

NewStatesman Pakistan is gearing up for the historic election on 11 May that will mark its first democratic transition from one civilian government to another. Turnout is set to be….Read more


Pakistan’s Tyrannical Majority

The New York Times JUST after the stroke of midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, the Peshawar broadcast station of All India Radio crackled to life: “This is Pakistan Broadcasting Service.”….Read more


Persecution: Anti-Ahmadi group targets community again

LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on Tuesday…..Read more


Pak’s Ahmedi community to boycott elections over ‘discrimination’

Yahoo News Lahore, May 6 (ANI): The Ahmedi community of Pakistan has decided to boycott the May 11 elections in protest against alleged discrimination in the voters list. The Jamaat….Read more


Ahmedis to boycott eight consecutive election

LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community. Historically, the….Read more


Ahmadis are Muslims, so said the Founder of Pakistan

The Muslim Times “Ahmadis are Muslims, If They Say They are Muslims and No One, Not Even the Sovereign Legislature, has the Right to Say Otherwise.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah,….Read more


COMMENT : The anatomy of a press release — Yasser Latif Hamdani

Jinnah was repeatedly pressured on the Ahmadi issue; he repeatedly shot it down publicly and said that those trying to raise the anti-Ahmadi issue were actually trying to divide the….Read more


Intolerant world

The News The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report that paints a picture of a world that is growing less tolerant of religious minorities. In the….Read more


Pak’s Ahmedi community to boycott elections over ‘discrimination’

Malaysia SUN The Ahmedi community of Pakistan has decided to boycott the May 11 elections in protest against alleged discrimination in the voters list. The Jamaat Ahmediyya Pakistan (JAP) said….Read more


Pak’s Ahmedi community to boycott elections over ‘discrimination’

News Track India Lahore, May 6 (ANI): The Ahmedi community of Pakistan has decided to boycott the May 11 elections in protest against alleged discrimination in the voters list. The….Read more


Pakistan election: the 4m votes no one wants

TheGaurdian (UK) Ahmadi religious minority vilified by extremists as heretic and shunned by mainstream politicians such as Imran Khan. As Pakistan‘s election campaign enters its dying days, no town has….Read more


Pak Ahmadis to boycott election

The Stateman Lahore/ISLAMABAD, 5 May: Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community today announced that it would boycott the general elections on 11 May to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will….Read more


Pakistan: Ahmadis to boycott May 11 election

NITI Central Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community on Sunday announced that it would boycott the general elections on May 11 to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will vote on….Read more


Ahmadis disassociate from Pakistan elections

LAHORE: The Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya (JA) announced its disassociation from the Pakistan general elections 2013 on Sunday to protest the discrimination shown towards the community, ‘more than all other religious minorities’. A separate….Read more


Pak Ahmadis to boycott polls

Business Standard Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community today announced that it would boycott the general elections on May 11 to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will vote on May….Read more


Press Release about disassociation of Ahmadis from Elections 2013

On the basis of religious beliefs separate voter lists specifically for Ahmadis is discrimination and against the spirit of joint electorate. In order to register our protest Jama’at Ahmadiyya Pakistan….Read more


Pakistan’s Ahmadis: Victims of Identity Theft

by Bina Shah    /  April 30, 2013 In one of my recent columns I wrote about how the Shias of Pakistan are being attacked by extremists who wouldn’t mind….Read more


The Pakistanis Who Won’t Vote

India RealTime Rights groups welcome Pervez Musharraf-era reforms to Pakistan’s electoral system, which helped put religious minorities on an equal footing with Muslims. But Ahmadis say they were left out,….Read more


No place for Ahmadis in Imran Khan’s Naya Pakistan

mran Khan’s latest video sums up everything that is wrong with our politicians. He has long been bandied about as a saviour and messiah, come to rescue this country and….Read more


Viral video forces Imran Khan to clarify stance on Ahmadis

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday issued a statement saying that the “PTI totally subscribes to the article in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the Ahmadis…..Read more