Tag: ahmedis

Ahmedi worship place burnt down, 30 injured in Faisalabad

  30 people, including six Ahmedis, injured after petty dispute blows out of proportion  Info minister terms clash a 'personal conflict' FAISALABAD: At least 30 people,...

HRW urges Pakistan to repeal discriminatory laws against Ahmedis

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged the government to immediately act to allow the full and equal participation of members of the Ahmadiyya...

Mob attacks Ahmedi sacred site, worship place in Sialkot

RPO takes notice, summons detailed report from Sialkot DPO, DC LAHORE: A mob— allegedly comprising members of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TRLY) and Pakistan...

Terrorism decreases in Pakistan, but religious fervour threatens national unity

ISLAMABAD: By voting last week to revoke an honour bestowed on the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in science, Pakistan’s National Assembly...

Pakistan’s Ahmedi community releases damning persecution report

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s disenfranchised Ahmedi community released an annual report on Saturday that detailed growing hostilities against the minority sect, including indiscriminate arrests and impediments blocking...

Ahmedis concerned over NADRA’s data sharing: report

ISLAMABAD: The religious community of Ahmedis has expressed serious apprehension over the release of data of its 10,205 citizens who changed their religion from Muslim...

Activists say court ruling of declaring religion threatens minorities

ISLAMABAD: Rights activists in Pakistan expressed concern Sunday over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents,...

Court can ask govt to act against non-Muslims pretending to be...

Lawyer suggests ‘Ahmedis can't be allowed to exercise Islamic rituals’ ISLAMABAD: Law expert Akram Sheikh on Friday apprised the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that...

If Ahmadis want equal status, they should stop pretending to be...

The Punjab law minister said that all other minority communities are enjoying equal status as citizens of Pakistan and "so will the Ahmedis if they admit to the fact that they are not Muslims and are a religious minority".

Pakistan respects all minorities: Ahsan Iqbal on Capt Safdar’s diatribe

LAHORE: While expressing his displeasure over the recent diatribe by Captain Muhammad Safdar in the National Assembly (NA) in which he launched a verbal attack on the Ahmedi...