Persecution >> ‘Pakistan’
کہاں کا انتخاب، کون سا الیکشن؟
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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’
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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’
Month: May, 2013
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’
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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
Month: May, 2013
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