Yearly summary of persecution – Some statistics and information

Ahmadi lives lost for their faith

• Mr. Naseer Ahmad was stabbed to death on August 12 in Rabwah (Chenab Nagar) in broad daylight, simply for being Ahmadi. The attacker did not know him previously.
• Mr. Abdul Salam was stabbed to death on May 17 in L Plot, District Okara, Punjab.
• Mr. Asghar Ali Kalaar, prisoner in a fabricated blasphemy case died during incarceration on January 10 in Bahawalpur, Punjab.

Faith-based assaults

• On March 5, two men attacked Dr. Mansoor Ahmad’s clinic, killed his non-Ahmadi cousin Dr. Muhammad Shahid Ahmad, and shot Mr. Jawad Ahmad in the leg in Peshawar.
• On August 6, a mob beat up Mr. Shamshad Ahmad and his sister in Chak No. 128, District Sahiwal. The mob shouted intentions to stone them.
• Mr. Naveed Ahmad, Ahmadi, was attacked on April 27 while returning home, along with three non-Ahmadi friends in Chak 261 Udhwali, District Faisalabad. He got bullet injuries. His friends remained safe.
• Mr. Sami Ullah from Faisalabad was severely injured in a firing attack in May.
• On March 18 one Afzal aka Chanda entered Mr. Abdul Latif an Ahmadi’s shop in Taunsa Sharif, District D.G. Khan, struck him with a hammer which severely injured him. He, however, survived.
• In June, a neighbor of Mr. Talat Mehmood, Ahmadi, attacked him and injured him in the head in Sehinsa, District Kotli. Mehmood got stitches at the hospital.
• Sajid Mehmood and his family faced faith-based hostility in Kotli, Azad Kashmir. On May 2, his in-laws survived a murderous attack. The attacker was arrested.

Religion-based tyranny, arrests and prosecution

Application of Ahmadi-specific laws, religious laws and registration of faith-based police cases was relentlessly undertaken by the state and the society. This year the police booked one hundred and seven Ahmadis, arrested twenty six of them.

• The police booked Ms. Kaneez Bibi, aged 65, Ahmadi, under PPC 295-A with FIR No. 56 in Police Station Badhiana, District Sialkot on February 2, and arrested her.
• Four Ahmadi office-bearers, Messrs. Abrar Ahmad (local president), Ahmad Bilal Bajwa (vice president), Irshad Ahmed and Muhammad Rashid were booked with FIR No. 118 under PPC 298-C in Police Station Dijkot, District Faisalabad on February 19, 2022. The case was registered on fabrication that Ahmadis’ place of worship resembles a mosque and Kalima (Islamic creed) is inscribed on it.

• The police booked Mr. Muhammad Yousaf, Ahmadi, under PPC 295-A in Police Station Jhak Atra, District Dera Ghazi Khan on February 2, and arrested him.
• A police case was registered against Syed Ali Ahmad Tariq Advocate with FIR No. 172 under PPCs 298-B, 298-C and 34 on November 21 at Police Station City Court Karachi, for his name Syed.
• The police booked Inamullah and Nouman Ahmad, two Ahmadi brothers, on fabricated false accusation with FIR No. 878 under articles 109, 511, 376/3, 363 on October 29 at P.S. Housing Colony, Sheikhupura. They were arrested.
• The police registered a criminal case against some members of the top Ahmadiyya leadership in Pakistan under the blasphemy clause PPC 295-B, the anti-Ahmadiyya law PPC 298-C and the Punjab Holy Quran Act 2017 on December 6 with FIR No. 661/22 in P.S. Chenab Nagar.
• The police booked 11 Ahmadis namely, Dawood Ahmad, Maqsood Ahmad, Jahanzeb Ahmad, Ansar Ahmad, Muhammad Ahmad, Shafiq Ahmad, Waqas Ahmad, Ashfaq Ahmad, Liaqat Ahmad, Nisar Ahmad and Faryad Ahmad under articles 337F(i), 337A(i), 337H(2), 506/B, 148, 149, 337L(2), in P.S. Phool Nagar, District Kasur on December 17, 2022.
• The police registered a case against five Ahmadis with FIR Nr. 699, under sections 298-B and 298-C in Police Station Wazirabad City, District Gujranwala on November 11.
• The police booked four Ahmadis namely, Mubashar Ahmad, Cheragh Din, Naeem Ahmad and Ghulam Hussain with FIR No. 59 under articles 337(iv), 337A(i), 334, 337 F(i), 337L(ii), 147, 148, 149, 504 in P.S. Nagar Parkar, District Tharparkar, Sindh on December 27.

Ahmadis Behind Bars

This year 26 Ahmadis were arrested. There are those who face arrest every year but some of them remain behind bars for long. Six Ahmadis are in prison for their faith at the end of this year, five of them since 2020 who were denied bail even by the Supreme Court.

Cyber Crime laws

• A police case was registered against a Director of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan vide FIR No. 99/2020 at FIA Cyber Crime Wing, Lahore on October 28, 2020 under section(s) 295-A, 153-A of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 R/W section 11 of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act, 2016. Judicial magistrate Chaudhry Ghulam Murtaza Virk added PPC 295-C in the case in December this year. The sentence under this clause is death.

Freedom of religion denied

• On the night of 7th and 8th December at around 2 a.m., a police force came with heavy machinery and vehicles, blocked the road in front of the mosque in Baghbanpura, District Gujranwala, switched off nearby lights, destroyed the minarets, and took away the debris with them. During this demolition, the security cameras and the wall of the mosque were also damaged.
• On September 13, the DSP and SHO along with 13 policemen came around midnight and destroyed the only remaining minaret of the mosque in Gojra, District Toba Tek Singh, as the other one was demolished back in 1974 by a rioting mob.
• On August 30, under the demands of TLP the SHO threatened Ahmadis of Mityal, District Jhelum with severe consequences. Ahmadis had to remove the minarets, for lack of protection from the state.
• On January 30 at midnight, nine boys came to the Ahmadiyya mosque of Kunri, District Umarkot and smashed the camera with stones.
• On February 19, some unidentified opponents set fire to a wooden structure adjacent to the Ahmadiyya mosque in Goth Ali Murad, District Badin, Sindh. The fire engulfed the mosque and damaged its roof.
• In the dark hours of 15-16 April 2022, the police sprayed out the Kalima from the Ahmadiyya mosque in Talharh Bali, District Khushab.
• On June 3, the local administration along with the police took away ‘Mashallah’ plates from the front walls of three Ahmadis’ houses in Ghoghyat, District Sargodha.
• On June 9, an unidentified person blackened the word ‘Ahmadiyya’ and graffitied Kafir Khana (infidel house) on the outer wall of ‘Bait ul Zikr Ahmadiyya’ in Chak Chatha, District Hafizabad.
• In June, the DSP told Ahmadis of Pind Dadan Khan, District Jhelum to remove the Kalima (Islamic creed) from their place of worship.

Official prop to persecution of Ahmadis

• PML-Q along with PTI ruled the Punjab. Mr. Parvez Elahi of PML-Q is the chief minister who issued orders through a ‘MOST URGENT’ ‘REMINDER’ with a ‘TIME LIMIT’ of one-day for implementation, “to ensure implementation of the amendment regarding the oath of Khatme Nabuwwat in the true letter and spirit in Nikah (marriage) formalities”.
• Khawaja Saad Rafique, a PML-N federal minister stated in a tweet, that:

“Qadianiat and Zionism is a conspiracy to thrust a dagger in the heart of Islam,”.

• Mr. Imran Khan and his party held a sizeable rally on April 9, in Abbottabad where Khan and bigwigs of the party addressed the crowd. One of the speakers was Mr. Ali Muhammad Khan, a former minister of state. His theme was anti-Ahmadiyya, and he claimed:

“Imran Khan govt broke the back of Qadianiat.” (Translation)

• Malik Ilyas Awan, Vice President Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Punjab sent an application to the Deputy Commissioner of District Khushab asking him “to expel all Ahmadis from the district.”
• Syed Ali Musa Gilani, son of Mr. Yusuf Raza Gilani a former prime minister from PPP, told the following false story in his campaign speech that:

“When Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto was doomed to be hanged, he sent for Mufti Mahmud and Maulana Kausar Niazi and told them, “Tomorrow I shall be hanged but both of you are Maulvis, so be my witnesses that at the time of accountability on Doomsday, tell Allah as supporting evidence that this is the Zulfiquar who declared Qadianis to be Non-Muslim to protect the honour of Thy Prophet.”

• TV channels, the official PTV and the private Geo News aired this video statement on September 14, of Mian Javed Latif, a PML-N federal minister: “(Then what about) the attack on the foundational issues of Islam and providing nourishment to Qadianiat! When he initiated the ‘New Pakistan’, didn’t every Qadiani unit in Karachi become active? Was this a mere coincidence? Also, on push from a professor, students of the Lahore Management University were driven to Rabwah with official protocol and were made forcibly to express solidarity with Qadianis. Was this also a mere coincidence? And, didn’t Imran Khan tell foreign media prior to assuming power, that if he came to power, the Qadianis would enjoy religious freedom? Every institution (Idarah) should consider and play its role in that if this mischief (fitna) gains momentum, Pakistan will be immersed in such bloodshed (khoon raizy)….”
• Mr. Nehal Hashmi, of PML-N and a former senator spoke in a talkshow on April 29 that, “… This is a conspiracy (sazish) of Ahmadis. Ahmadis are in league with them…. These are a fitna (great mischief) and the Pakistani people will not spare them.”
• On April 24, Mr. Ali Muhammad Khan issued a tweet, quoting a made-up Hadith with his own vernacular translation: “I am the last Prophet; there is no Prophet after me.”
• The not-so-new Hajj form has come to our notice. Every Muslim pilgrim going to Makka for Hajj is required to apply to the Govt of Pakistan for permission. We provide its translation here.

Affidavit: I affirm on oath that:

I am a Muslim and believe the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H.) to be the last Prophet and believe most ardently (Dil o Jan say) in his finality.

Moreover, I attest that Khatam an Nabiyyeen wal Mursaleen Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H.)’s end of Prophethood was complete, final and unconditional, and I do not believe in anyone nor believe him to be a Prophet or Messenger in any sense or meaning of these terms. I do not belong to the Qadiani or Lahori Group or who call themselves Ahmadi or by any such name; I send curses on such a claimant, and consider such a claimant, including Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, to be a liar.

……                                                                           Signature of the Applicant

• Thefridaytimes.com. issued that, “Governor Tessori Desires Punjab-Like Finality of Prophethood Clause in Sindh Marriage Certificates”.
• President endorsed Rahmatul lil Alamin wa Khataman Nabiyyeen Authority Bill (The daily Dunya; Faisalabad, July 16, 2022)

• The MPAs, 1) Ms Humaira Khatun, 2) Inayatullah Khan, 3) Sirajuddin Khan, all of JI moved an anti-Ahmadiyya resolution in KP Assembly in June. A provincial minister thanked the movers of the Resolution, and the Assembly passed it unanimously.
• A police contingent accompanied by a few laborers destroyed 45 Ahmadiyya tombstones in the local graveyard, on demand of opponents of the Ahmadiyya community in Premkot, District Hafizabad on 4/5 February.
• On April 6, Assistant Commissioner Daska along with the SHO Police Station Motra and a heavy contingent came to the graveyard and destroy 43 tombstones on Ahmadis’ graves in Peeru Chak, District Sialkot.
• The police desecrated 30 gravestones of Ahmadis in Ghughyat, Tehsil Bhera, District Sargodha on May 11.
• The AC sealed the Ahmadiyya part of the cemetery and denied burial there to an Ahmadi woman in Peeru Chak, District Sialkot in November.
• Unidentified miscreants levelled 16 Ahmadis’ graves in Chak 203 RB Manawala, District Faisalabad on August 21-22.
• Maulvi Umar Hayyat and his associate Ali desecrated graves of four Ahmadis with ‘Muhammad’ and ‘Ali’ written as part of the names on the gravestones. They graffitied ‘Kuta Qadiani’ (Ahmadi dog) on the back of the tombstones in Prem Kot, District Hafizabad on November 22-23.
• Unidentified miscreants tore down three Ahmadiyya gravestones at midnight in 89 Ratan, District Faisalabad on November 20.
• On May 20, anti-Ahmadiyya miscreants dug up the grave of Ashfaq Ahmad who was buried in 1997 in Sangu Hayatabad, Peshawar, and threw out his remains.
• Mr. Muhammad Akram, an Ahmadi, passed away on February 3 in 354 JB, District Toba Tek Singh. At the time of burial, some miscreants came there, filled the grave with earth and denied burial. The Numberdar was contacted to settle the matter, but he did not cooperate.
• In July 2020, on demand of the opponents, the police destroyed the tombstones of 67 Ahmadis in Trigri, District Gujranwala. Later, in December 2020, the AC sealed the said graveyard and sent up a proposal to allot another place for Ahmadis. Ahmadis have no place to bury their dead since then.
• District Education Authority’s Chief Executive Officer (CHINIOT) issued an order, No. 2024/(G) dated August 27, 2022, through the District Education Officers to all the stake holders to verify their records and ensure that ‘Ahmadi/Qadiani’ students were registered in ‘their own religious synonym’ – whatever that means. Compliance certificate was demanded within 3 days – ‘without fail’.
• A controversial billboard on the issue of Khatme Nabuwwat was put up by mulla Ilyas Chinioti, an MPA of PML-N near the toll plaza on Sargodha Road in Rabwah.
• AJK Assembly passed a lengthy Resolution on the issue of Khatme Nabuwwat (KN) (End of Prophethood), and openly gave all the wrong reasons to indulge in this exercise. Here we do not repeat all that, but translate below some of the demands made in their Resolution:
• The End of Prophethood (KN) syllabus that was introduced in KP schools should be incorporated in the AJK curriculum.
• Quranic verses with translations and the ‘Seal of Prophecy’, the Hadith and the Kalima should be displayed or hung in golden letters on AJK Assembly building, and in government buildings, offices, and at the KN Chowk Chhattar 2 miles.
• All Muslim officials, government servants and citizens of this state should produce KN affidavits at the time of their induction, posting and marriage, and these should be placed in their (personal) records.
• All the KN resolutions passed in AJK Assembly since 1973 should be compiled and published. Moreover the Proceedings of the National Assembly of Pakistan, as also all the KN laws and judicial verdicts should be securely kept in the Legislative Assembly of Azad Kashmir.
• All the existing laws on the issues of Khatme Nabuwwat, Namus Risalat (Honour of Prophethood), Namus Sahaba and Ahle Bait (Honour of the Companions and the Family) should be effectuated.
• The exalted name of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) should be written thus in all documents: Rahmat ul il Aalameen, Khatam al Nabiyyeen, Hazrat Muhammad Sallal Allahu Elaihe wa Sallam.

• The police installed a board on the road outside the niche of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Ghoghyat, District Sargodha, which read, “This is not a Muslims’ mosque; it is a place of worship for the (Qadiani) Jamaat”.
• Khatme Nabuwwat has been made part of the syllabus for the first time: Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaisar’s address at the occasion of distribution of (monthly) donation to Ulama Karam (respected mullas). (The daily Mashriq; Lahore, January 15, 2022)

The Bench and the Bar

• The daily Jang E-paper published the following report (extracts) in its issue https://jang.com.pk/news/1160817:

Publication of blasphemous material is a danger to national security; joint actions will be required: Lahore High Court (LHC)

Rawalpindi (Our reporter). Justice Abdul Aziz of LHC (Rawalpindi) expressed displeasure over lack of action on orders of the higher judiciary against publication of blasphemous material and demanded a report from federal ministries, PTA and FIA on next hearing concerning follow-up action on court orders. He ordered presence of the current and the former DPO Chiniot on failure to arrest the proclaimed offender involved in placing the blasphemous material on social media. … The High Court ordered that on the next hearing the present and previous DPOs should personally appear in the court….

• The daily Dawn; Lahore published on January 16 that, “Three men blamed for sharing distorted version of Quran. LHC denies post-arrest bail to the accused belonging to Ahmadi community.”
• The daily Dawn published a report by its staff reporter on a hearing held by Justice Shujaat Ali Khan of Lahore High Court on a petition by Mr. Hassan Muawiyah, an anti-Ahmadi activist based in Lahore.  This news report (extract):

Centre, Punjab vow action against altered Quran publication

By our staff reporter 2022-12-08

LAHORE:  The principal secretaries to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Wednesday gave an undertaking before the Lahore High Court regarding the implementation of a 2019 verdict requiring action against the people involved in publication of unauthentic copies of the Holy Quran. …

• The daily Dawn published the following:

Incomplete implementation of 2014 court verdict on minorities lamented

By our Staff Reporter 2022-06-20

LAHORE: Speakers at a conference on the 8^th anniversary of the landmark judgment regarding minorities rights regretted that implementation was largely missing.

They urged the government to attend to directives issued on June 19, 2014 by then Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani. …

• The prestigious dawn https://www.dawn.com/news/1712150/peshawar-court-acquits-two-of-ahmadi-homeopaths-killing issued the following report (extract):

PESHAWAR: A local court has acquitted two men on the charge of killing an Ahmadi homeopath in his clinic on the outskirts of the provincial capital last year.

Hateful propaganda

Note: Numerous conferences and rallies mentioned in this section were held under cover of fair names of Milad, Khatme Nabuwwat etc. but in fact were anti-Ahmadiyya hate propaganda.

• Mullas are allowed to hold a special conference every year in Rabwah — the center of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, where Ahmadis are more than 95% of the population. Mullas come from far and wide to hurl abuses against the residents of this town and the personages they respect. On September 7, a conference was organized by mulla Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, administrator of Madrassah Khatme Nabuwwat (KN) and Deputy Amir (president) Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat (MTKN).
• On 9 October, Majlis e Ahrar Pakistan organized a Khatme Nabuwwat Conference on the occasion of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) (Eid Milad ul Nabi)  in Rabwah.
• Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat (MTKN) held a two-day conference in Muslim Colony, Chenab Nagar (Rabwah) on October 27-28.
• The 60th Fateh Mubahila Conference was held on 26-27 February 2022 in Chiniot.
• Mulla Tauseef Ahmad, of Jamia Masjid Khatme Nabuwwat, Muslim Colony, Chenab Nagar (Rabwah) sent an application to the Deputy Commissioner against Ahmadi teachers working in local and suburban public schools.
• Xari Jalil of voicepk.net, a third party source, released an op-ed on the deliberate outburst of the mulla Naeem Chatha Qadri. Its headline:

Video shows TLP leader inciting violence against pregnant Ahmadi women

• On February 26, Rajanpur Majlis Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwwat invited an anti-Ahmadi mulla Irfan Mahmood Barq to Rajanpur. On February 27, he held anti-Ahmadiyya sittings in different parts of the city, two of which were at the Government High School. The school assembled the students in the playground and mulla Barq delivered fifty-minute anti-Ahmadiyya lectures. He promoted there his anti-Ahmadiyya book, “Radde Qadianiat (Rebuttal of Qadianiat), Islam aur Science k katehry mein (in the courtroom of Islam and Science)”.
• Anti-Ahmadiyya wall chalking was done at various places in Peeru Chak, District Sialkot and a couplet was written on front of the Ahmadiyya mosque: “Tell me what you want? Head of a blasphemer!”
• On January 29, at 6 o’clock in the morning, some hate mongers wall-chalked on the local Ahmadiyya mosque in Pir Mahal, District Toba Tek Singh: “Long live Tajdaare Khatme Nabuwwat: Hizb Allah — Death to the false Messiah”.
• An anti-Ahmadiyya rally was held in Sillanwali, District Sargodha on August 24 in the name of Khatme Nabuwwat.
• AMTKN organized a Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwwat conference in Shah Latif Town, Karachi on November 13.
• Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith Aalmi Punjab held a Khatme Nabuwwat conference in Gujranwala on March 31.
• Some hate monger wrote with black color on the main door of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Azizabad, Karachi: “False prophet Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani was a British slave (Repent).”

Ahmadi women

• Mrs. Tariq Majeed Rana, Ahmadi was a teacher in Green Town, Lahore. She was fired from the job for her faith in February.
• Ms. Faiza Ahmad, Ahmadi, had been teaching at Superior University, Lahore since 2015, but had to resign on February 26, 2022 due to severe hostility.
• Miss Shams ul Mubeen is a Second Year student at Degree College, Chak 209 RB District Faisalabad. The principal harassed her with false accusations in April. 

Threats

• Mr. Qamar Abbas’s relatives in Sillanwali, District Sargodha have imposed a social boycott against him. Mullas declared him infidel and threatened him with murder. His wife and children are no longer staying with him.

• Mr. Saif ur Rehman is a businessman. A non-Ahmadi, Muhammad Waris, demanded a machine from him and threatened him with murder if his demand was not met.
• Qari Saeed threatened Ahmadis with police cases on Eid festival through social media in Qamarabad, District Naushehro Feroze. Saeed posted the following this year, before Eid:

Qadianis, being non-Muslim, are not allowed to undertake Qurbani on Eid festival. In case they do so, they shall be booked under PPC 298-C.

Qadianis violate the Constitution and law by openly using Islamic rituals and fraudulently portraying themselves as Muslim and part of Ummat e Muhammadi (Muhammad’s followers). 

• Some clerics along with ten madrassa students came to Master (teacher) Fazal Ahmad’s house on July 13 at Dastagir Colony, Karachi and threatened him with severe consequences.
• An anti-Ahmadiyya activist did graffiti “Death to Qadiani (Ahmadi)” on his house in Chianwali, District Gujranwala.
• Imran Ahmad, Ahmadi runs a shop in Mehran Town, Karachi. Six persons along with a mulla came to his shop and took photos. They threatened and asked the locals to boycott him.
• Irfan Ahmad Qureshi, Ahmadi of Rawalpindi, received a threat call from a private number that did not appear on the screen.

Civic discrimination

• The principal of Sajid Public School and that of the Bright Vision School expelled 18 Ahmadi children from their institutions in District Jhang, Punjab in October.
• The Educators (Mithial Campus) expelled four Ahmadi students in District Attock in September.
• Five Ahmadi students were expelled from hostel in Islamabad in October.
• The courses in the Air University Islamabad campus for the year 2021-22 in Islamic Studies & Ethics include a section against Ahmadis, titled: “Seal of the Prophets: Constitutional Status of Qadiyaniat”.
• A sticker posted on public transport. This was shown in a tweet @Khalid_Malik11. Its translation in English:

Warning

It is strictly forbidden for a Mirzai to board this vehicle, who follow Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, the liar, claimant to fake and fabricated prophethood.

Mirzais who call themselves Qadiani/Ahmadi/Lahori should first enter Islam before entering this vehicle.

• Mr. Rashid Ahmad set up a junk shop in Rabbani Colony, District Faisalabad and named it Abdullah Traders after his son Abdullah. On February 18, a bully entered his shop, objected to the shop’s name (Abdullah Traders) and told Rashid to remove the poster. He called 15 to 20 TLP men to the spot. They came, raised slogans and beat up Mr. Ahmad. He had to vacate the shop for his life.
• Mr. Kashif Zahoor Pal of Rachna Town, Lahore was forced by the opponents to vacate his shop.
• Mr. Luqman Ahmad of Channi Qureshiyan, District Chiniot is a homeopath and was forced by the local mullas to vacate the shop. Ahmad had to comply.
• The administration of Sillanwali, District Sargodha wrongfully deprived Mr. Abdul Aziz, local Ahmadi president, of his property, a plot of land, by sealing it.

Miscellaneous

• Amnesty International LUMS Chapter told to drop the Ahmadi speaker Dr. Mirza Sultan Ahmad from their conference.
• The weekly The Friday Times, published in December an op-ed titled: A Religio-Political Dilemma: How Far Can Parvez Elahi Afford to Take Anti-Ahmadi Bigotry in Punjab?
• The daily Jang, issued at Quetta (capital of Baluchistan province), in its issue of October 4, published a 5-column anti-Ahmadi headline on a story that had nothing to do with Ahmadis, whatsoever. The story was about prison department and the treatment of inmates, while the headline read:

“The Muslim Ummah will have to act in unison to crush Qadianism.”

• Rana Ashfaq Ahmad, an Ahmadi’s condolence was made problematic by a bigot in Qazi Ahmad, District Nawabshah in February.
• Journalist Riaz Sohail of BBC Urdu. Com posted a report on Ahmadis’ situation in Pakistan on January 27. Its headline is: Declining population of Ahmadi community in Pakistan: ‘No one wants to leave his country, but children cannot be left at the mercy of oppressors’
• The daily Dawn printed on March 5 a newsreport with the headline:

Bilawal links Peshawar blast (57 dead in mosque) to non-implementation of NAP. Alleges PTI government has soft corner for terrorists.

• Humanity First donated £100,000 for emergency assistance to Pakistan. (Press Release by H.F. On September 23, 2022) 

December 31, 2022

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

• Dr. Abdul Qadir was murdered on February 11 in Peshawar, KPK.
• Mr. Kamran Ahmad was shot dead on November 9 in Peshawar, KPK.
• Mr. Akbar Ali died of a heart attack while in custody on February 16, in Shaukatabad Colony, District Nankana Sahib.

Faith-based assaults

• On February 1, two men attacked in school Mr. Naeem Ahmad Bajwa, an Ahmadi, headmaster of the school in District Layyah.
• Three Ahmadis survived a murderous attack in District Sargodha on July 21. Mr. Tayyab Ahmad was shot thrice in the legs. The local Ahmadi president Mr. Faiz Ahmad was shot in the leg, while Mr. Saifullah received a head injury.

• On March 8, two youth on motorbike stopped Mr. Nusrat Elahi Majoka of Khushab and beat him up.
• On September 10, some gangsters of 426 GB Kana Konta, District Toba Tek Singh, carrying firearms and rods, attempted assault on Mr. Muhammad Abid, an Ahmadi.
• Unknown assailants attacked Mr. Rashid Ali and Mr. Asif Ali, Ahmadi brothers of Kot Abdul Malik, Lahore, riding a motorbike. The attackers raised anti-Ahmadiyya slogans and fired at them. The shot hit their motorbike; fortunately, the brothers escaped unhurt.
• Unidentified men fired at Ahmadis’ homes in Bazid Khel, Peshawar at about 1 a.m. night on March 12. Families of Messrs Arshad Iqbal, Ruhul Amin and Sahibzada Muhammad Rafiq reside there. Nine shots were aimed at Mr. Arshad’s home while the other two were shot at 4/5 times.
• The opponents attacked the funeral party of an Ahmadi woman in Chak 79 Nawan Kot, District Sheikhupura on June 6. The police registered an FIR over the fight and mentioned 11 nominated and 20/25 unidentified Ahmadis in this.
• On January 2, some mischief mongers went to the Ahmadiyya cemetery with their cattle; an Ahmadi present stopped them. At this, one of them hit the Ahmadi on his head with a brick. Opponents then obtained a fake medical certificate and filed an application with police against seven Ahmadis alleging that they had beaten them for being Muslim.
• On October 8, a neighbor attacked Syed Ali Shah, an Ahmadi of Moin ud Din Pur, District Gujrat with cleaver because of his faith, injuring him in head and arm.
• In October 2021, Mr. Abdul Waheed Ghumman of Pakki Kotli, District Sialkot, 50, a teacher left for home when two unknown assailants opened fire at him. One bullet hit his left arm and the other his chest causing him to bleed profusely.
• On March 11, some Ahmadi children of Naukot, District Mirpur Khas were on their way home after cleaning their place of worship when stones were thrown at them from behind, causing injuries to two.
• On July 14, Pakistani Kashmiri activist Sundas Malik encouraged massacre of Ahmadis.

Religion-based tyranny, arrests and prosecution

• Application of Ahmadi-specific laws, religious laws and registration of faith-based police cases was relentlessly undertaken by the state and the society. This year seventy Ahmadis were booked by the police while twelve suffered arrest.
• Mr. Sharafat Ahmad, Akbar Ali, and Tahir Naqash were booked under anti-Ahmadi laws PPC 298-B and 298-C on spurious grounds at police station Mangtanwala, District Nankana, on May 2, 2020. Magistrate M Adil Riaz of Nankana Sahib heard the case on January 4, 2021, and seeking support from the highly controversial judgment of the Supreme Court “Zaheer-ud-din versus the State and LHC decisions of 1987 and 1992” observed that the Blasphemy clauses PPC 295-C and 295-B be added to the charges. Mr. Akbar Ali died of a heart attack while in custody on February 16, 2021.

• Mr. Asghar Ali Kalar, an Ahmadi, aged 70, was booked under the blasphemy law PPC 295-C with FIR Nr. 651 on the complaint of Hafiz Javed Mustafa Head of Jamia Saeedia Model Town, Bahawalpur, in police station Bhaghdad Aljadid on September 24. He was arrested and sent to Bahawalpur Jail, where he died a few months later.
• A case was registered against 11 Ahmadis of Bhoiwal, District Sheikhupura under PPC 298-C on January 8 on a complaint by Asadullah; of these, two Ahmadis had died and two had moved abroad a long time ago.
• On March 1, the police registered case against Mr. Tahir Naqash with FIR Nr. 83 under PPC 298 at police station Ganda Singh Wala, District Kasur and arrested him.
• The police registered a case against three brothers and a nephew with FIR No. 139 under PPC 298-C at police station Jhanian, District Khanewal on March 30.
• On 29 July, police registered a case on the application of Mulla Usama Rahim under FIR No. 348, against 25 – 30 unknown persons under PPC 188 and 427 in P.S. Chenab Nagar (Rabwah) for collecting Qurbani hides.   

Cyber Crimes laws

• Four Ahmadis Mr. Muhammad Mahmood Iqbal Hashmi, Mr. Shiraz Ahmad etc were booked by Cyber Crime Police Station Lahore on June 20, 2019 under FIR Nr. 88, under PPCs 295-A, 298-C, PECA-11, for allegedly creating a group “Sindh Salamat” and allegedly sharing Ahmadiyya content in it. Mr. Shiraz Ahmad was arrested from Hafizabad on February 25, 2021. Mr. Hashmi was also arrested.
• On February 27, when Malik Zaheer Ahmad was expected to be released from the Camp Jail, the Cyber Crime Wing Lahore team arrested him under FIR Nr. 88, under PPCs 295-A, 298-C, PECA-11. He was not even formally nominated in the case.
• Mr. Mansoor Ahmad Tahir was booked in a police case with FIR No. 217 under 16 M.P.O. at police station Haweli Lakha, District Okara on March 31, 2021 and was arrested. The plaintiff alleged that Mr. Tahir passed negative remarks about his religious program which outraged him. FIA Cyber Crime registered a new police case against him with FIR No. 112 under PECA 2016.

Freedom of religion denied

• A police contingent erased the Kalima written in the courtyard of the Ahmadiyya place of worship in Prem Kot, District Hafizabad on January 6, 2021.
• The police tore down the niche of Ahmadiyya place of worship with the help of some labour in Kot Diyaldas, District Nankana Sahib on January 15, 2021.
• On January 26, the Tehsildar, Patwari, and SHO Dherokay, District Toba Tek Singh visited Ahmadiyya place of worship and destroyed Allah Almighty’s names with help of a mason. They turned off the cameras there and took the DVR with them.
• A police contingent came to the Ahmadiyya place of worship in Sukheki, District Hafizabad and plastered the Kalima therein on January 28, 2021.
• In an operation, the police destroyed the elegant minarets and undertook the enormity of effacing the Kalima on the mosque’s front in Garmula Virkan, District Gujranwala on March 17, 2021.
• Opponents, with the police assistance, destroyed the minarets and the niche of Ahmadiyya place of worship in Chak 604, District Muzaffargarh on April 11, 2021.
• The police detained the owner of Ahmadiyya place of worship in Ghari Awan, District Hafizabad in June 2021, took an oath from him and forced him to take down its minaret.
• The SHO Dijkot along with police accompanied by approximately 30 workers of the civil administration carried out the demolition of minarets and sacred inscriptions of the Ahmadiyya place of worship in Udhwali Chak 261 RB, District Faisalabad on June 17, 2021.
• Approximately 30 policemen arrived at Ghiyala Chak 57 GB, District Faisalabad on June 24, 2021 after sunset, cordoned off all approaches to the Ahmadiyya place of worship, switched off the lights, broke the lock and entered the site. Thereafter they pulverized the plaques of the Kalima, names of Allah, Quranic verses, and wrecked its minarets.
• On July 29, 2021, a police contingent demolished the four minarets of the Ahmadiyya mosque, effaced the Kalima written inside and took away the Kalima posted outside in Chak 84 GB, District Faisalabad.
• On September 9, 2021, at almost 9:30 p.m. two police vans arrived at the Ahmadiyya place of worship in Talwandi Musa Khan, District Gujranwala and removed the prayer written on the main door.
• Around one o’clock on the night of September 13, 2021, a policeman came to the Ahmadiyya mosque of Manawala, District Faisalabad, accompanied by a few others, and blackened the Kalima with paint.
• In the dark hours of December 01, 2021, the police and town committee members came to the Ahmadiyya mosque in Bhera, District Sargodha, destroyed the Kalima written in the hall as well as in the courtyard, and took the debris along with them.
• Opponents attempted in various ways to deny Ahmadis their right to offer cattle sacrifices (Qurbani) at the occasion of their Eid ul Adha festival. Ahmadiyya central office received reports from over 25 locations where they faced great difficulties in performing this religious rite.

Official prop to persecution of Ahmadis

• The Religion News Service issued an article on January 13: “Pakistan attempts to prosecute Ahmadi US citizens for digital blasphemy”.
• In the Punjab Assembly, Mr. Nazir Chohan, Raja Basharat (Punjab Law Minister) and Mr. Saeed Akbar Khan Nawani etc. made speeches on the religious identity of Mr. Shahzad Akbar and vowed curses on the holy founder of Ahmadiyya Community and Ahmadis.
• Punjab Assembly new hall inaugurated with a Khatme Nabuwwat sayings on interior.
• Ahmadi- owned school sealed by authorities in Distt. D G Khan on July 1.
• The police visited cemetery along with miscreants and destroyed the gravestones of three Ahmadis in Bhoiwal, District Sheikhupura on January 8.
• The police plastered Arabic phrases on Ahmadis’ gravestones with cement in District Toba Tek Singh on January 26. Later they hired a mason from the village and busted some tombstones.
• The police desecrated 25 gravestones of Ahmadis in Chak 565 GB, Jaranwala, District Faisalabad on February 2.
• The police destroyed sixteen gravestones of Ahmadis in District Nankana in March.
• Punjab Police desecrated a gravestone in District Muzaffargarh on April 11.
• The police wrecked five gravestones of Ahmadis in District Sheikhupura in September.
• Punjab Police destroyed 40 gravestones and removed holy inscriptions from the Ahmadiyya mosque in Talwandi Musa Khan, Gujranwala on September 9.
• A qualified government servant, Mr. Shaukat Hayyat Majoka, an Ahmadi, was denied postings repeatedly for his faith on complaints of religious bigots.
• Newly appointed CEO Health Chakwal Dr. Waseem Ahmed was removed for his faith.
• Chief Executive Officer, District Sialkot wrote a letter to all the District Education Officers, promoting End of Prophethood.
• Mr. Ali Naseer Amini, an Ahmadi, government official was removed from his post.
• The daily Dunya reported on September 23: “Resolution passed to hang verses on End of Prophethood in offices”.
• Chaudhary Parvez Elahi, Speaker Punjab Assembly, released a special video message on September 7, to commemorate the 2^nd Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan in 1974, and called it the day of Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat.
• The Punjab Assembly passed a resolution regarding the inclusion of Khatme Nabuwwat deyclaration in marriage forms, on October 27.

The role of legal community

• Justice Farooq Haider of Lahore High Court recently endorsed the verdict forbidding Ahmadis:
• To have any association with Kalima Tayyaba, the Islamic Creed
• To recite the Holy Quran or even have its copy
• To keep books of their own holy founder in possession,

Otherwise, face charges under the blasphemy sections PPC 295-C and/or PPC 295-B.

• The daily Dunya published the following on June 10: “Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan has directed the federal government to take steps to curb anti-Islamic content and popularize Islamic authoritative websites all over the world, in a case against uploading offensive content on social media. … Qadianis or people who have been declared non-Muslims should be identified and cases should be registered against those who distort Islamic teachings, which is a crime under the laws of Pakistan. The government should file a case against them, saying that private individuals should come and file a case, is against the law”.
• In April, three lawyers of Punjab Bar Council wrote an application to their Vice Chairman at Lahore on the subject of “Requisition to enter the religion column (Qadiani)”.
• Secretary Lahore Bar Association wrote a letter to the Addl. Chief Secretory Home to forbid Ahmadis offering cattle sacrifices (Qurbani) at their Eid ul Adha festival.
• The daily Dunya published the following report in its issue on October 16, (extracts):

Quran compulsory; District CEOs to inspect schools

The Secretary will intimate number of periods allocated (for this purpose): Lahore High Court

Secretary Education and MD PCTB told to report along with compliance report, on November 3

• The Express Tribune reported on Nov 5: “…Lahore High Court Justice Shujaat Ali Khan has summoned Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar to appear in person in a case pertaining to the alleged publication of the Holy Quran by the minority Ahmadiyya community.”

Hateful propaganda

• Mullas hold a special conference every year in Rabwah — the center of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, where Ahmadis are more than 95% of the population. Mullas come from far and wide to hurl abuses against the residents of the town and the personages they respect. On September 7, a conference was organized by mulla Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, administrator of Madrassah Khatme Nabuwwat (KN) and Deputy Amir (president) Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat (MTKN).
• On 18 October, Majlis e Ahrar Pakistan organized a hateful Khatme Nabuwwat Conference on the occasion of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H. (Eid Milad ul Nabi)  in Rabwah — the center of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan.
• On March 9, opponents took out a rally in Jhudo District Mirpur Khas, Sindh, in which mullas harangued the crowd against the Jamaat Ahmadiyya and called for killing of Ahmadis, burning of Ahmadis’ houses, stopping doing businesses with and social boycott of Ahmadis.
• An anti-Ahmadi conference was held in Bhiri Shah Rehman, Gujranwala in April in which a mulla was invited to speak. The mulla told the participants that Qadianis are staunch enemies of Islam. People were told to boycott them, end all dealings, vacate shops rented out to Qadianis, not allow them to shop from their stores. One who sells a piece of land to Qadianis should be kicked out from the town, he advised.
• The opponents held anti-Ahmadiyya gatherings and invited hostile clerics from outside in Udhwali, District Faisalabad in June. They urged the destruction of the niche and minarets of the Ahmadiyya mosque and the removal of Islamic inscriptions from Ahmadi homes.
• Haji Muhammad Sher, Ahmadi, owns a shop in Tattapani, Azad Kashmir. His name was written on the main board of the shop as proprietor. A former candidate of TLP for the Azad Kashmir Assembly moved an application against him with the local police. He wrote that Qadianis have been declared infidels in the Constitution, so they cannot use the words “Haji” and “Muhammad” in their names (sic). On September 2, 2021, the TLP activists gave the police a deadline until evening to remove the board; in case of non-compliance, the goons threatened to remove it themselves. The same evening the compliant police erased the words “Muhammad” and “Haji” from the board.

Ahmadi women

• Ms. Atia tul Naseer Nabeel teaching in “The Rise International School” in Barakahu, Islamabad for the past eight years was fired from job for her faith.
• Miss Maheen Sharif, a student of BBA, faced hostility at the BUITEMS University Quetta.
• Ms. Ayesha Kanwal, posted as in-charge Dar ul Amaan, district Chakwal, was prevented from doing her duty.
• Ms. Naseem Akhtar, Ahmadi female government teacher faced hostility at school in Batali Goi, District Kotli.

Threats

• An unknown person threw in a slip of paper at the house of Malik Mahmood Ahmad in Township, Lahore, on March 25, it read: “Go away within a week. If you don’t, we will attack you”.
• On March 9, opponents took out a rally in Jhudo District Mirpur Khas, in which mullas harangued the crowd against the Jamaat Ahmadiyya and called for killing of Ahmadis, burning of Ahmadis’ houses, stopping doing businesses with them and their social boycott.
• Mr. Basharat Ahmad Bhatti is an Ahmadi Associate Professor at Government Municipal Graduate College, Jaranwala. On September 7, he received hateful and threatening messages on WhatsApp from unknown numbers.
• Dr. Pervez Zarif of Bhati Gate, Lahore received two threat letters, contained: “If you want to stay alive, you should hand over ten tola gold and procure ten gold biscuits from Sharif Jewelers, Rang Mahal. Go there on Friday; we will contact you and receive these in our own way. Thereafter vacate your house and leave the area”.

Civic discrimination

• Mr. Sharafat Hussain Baloch, Ahmadi of Abdullah Goth, Steel Town Karachi was forced by the opponents to vacate his house.
• Mr. Imtiaz Ahmad, Mr. Ijaz Ahmad, and Mr. Rehan Ahmad, Ahmadis, have been doing masonry work for ten years in Namdar, a village adjacent to their village Chak 565 GB, District Faisalabad. Villagers threatened them with murder; obeying them, the police ousted Ahmadis from the village in the name of religion and law and order.
• Mr. Rahat Ahmad Karamat’s son Masroor Ahmad Karamat and daughter Sadia Karamat were denied admission in school in Korangi, Karachi.
• Four Kabaddi clubs organized their annual Wahla  Kabaddi Cup, Faislabad to be held on November 28, at 8 Chak Panjgrain, Daewoo Road, Small Estate, Faisalabad. On the posters they wrote in bold letters: Qadianis’ entry is banned. Qadiani is Kafir. Authorities took no action against these violators of law.

Miscellaneous

• Mr. Masroor Ahmad, an Ahmadi student, faced opposition for being Ahmadi, in Government College Chawinda, District Sialkot.
• Amnesty International issued a statement and comment on June 3: “… Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are overbroad, vague and coercive, enable abuse and violate Pakistan’s international legal obligations to respect and protect human rights, including freedom of religion or belief and of opinion and expression. They have been used to target religious minorities, pursue personal vendettas and carry out vigilante violence. On the basis of little or no credible evidence, the accused struggle to establish their innocence while angry, and violent groups of people seek to intimidate the police, witnesses, prosecutors, lawyers and judges.”
• In July, United Nation Human Rights Council took note of the proceedings of the Side Event at the occasion of its 47th annual session. It issued a statement of the three UN Rapporteurs at the occasion, on persecution of Ahmadis.
• TLP a politico-religious party precipitated extensive riots in mid-April that shook the country. It did the same again in October. The government made a deal with them.
• Mr. Thames wrote an article in June titled: The Perils of Being Ahmadi in Pakistan. It is available at inkstickmedia.com/the. Perils-of-being-Ahmadi.
• Mr. Diyawadana, a Sri Lankan factory manager in Sialkot was lynched by mob on December 3.

December 31, 2021

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

• Mr. Tanzeel Ahmad was murdered on February 27 in Lahore.
• Mr. Mairaj Ahmad was shot dead on August 12 in Peshawar, KPK.
• Professor Naeem ud Din Khattak was shot dead on October 05 in Peshawar.
• Mr. Mehboob Ahmad Khan was shot dead on November 08 in Peshawar.
• Dr. Tahir Mehmood was shot dead on November 20 in District Nankana Sahib on November 20, 2020.

Faith-based assaults

• On August 11, Sheikh Nasir Ahmad, Ahmadi of Lala Musa, District Gujrat, Punjab was shot at 21:30 hr by unidentified attackers, when he was walking back home from the bazaar. The attackers achieved four hits and fled from the scene of crime. The injury has severely affected his movements.
• Mr. Gulzar Ahmad survived an attempt on his life in Peshawar on 20th September. He was hit with five bullets. He is brother of Mr. Mairaj Ahmad, who was murdered in Peshawar the previous month.
• A violent attack in broad daylight on an Ahmadi’s house in Marh Balochan in District Nankana Sahib Punjab left one Ahmadi 31-year-old Dr. Tahir Mehmood dead and 3 others injured on November 20.  Mr. Tariq Mehmood, Mr. Saeed Ahmad Maqsood and Mr. Tayyab Mehmood got badly injured.
• Mr. Ghulam Nabi, an Ahmadi, of Mustafa Abad, District Kasur runs a furniture shop. On February 16 at midnight, about four unknown masked men entered the shop, beat up him and set the furniture on fire.
• On May 23, Mr. Ataul Hai was returning home along with his family. The opponents attacked them. They abused Mr. Hai and threatened him savagely in Rahim Nagar, District Nankana.
• On August 12, the house of Syed Naeem Ahmad Bashir in Sahiwal, District Sargodha, Punjab was attacked at night. Gunman fired bullets expecting the family to be asleep in the courtyard, as is the practice in the Punjab in this season. The family survived because they were not sleeping there, otherwise a few might have been killed.
• On July 29, 2020, Mr. Tahir Ahmad Naseem, a U.S. citizen, presumed to be Ahmadi, facing blasphemy charge was murdered in a court room in Peshawar in the presence of the judge.

Religion-based tyranny, arrests and prosecution

• Application of Ahmadi-specific laws, religious laws and registration of faith-based police cases was relentlessly undertaken by the state and the society. This year fifty Ahmadis were booked by the police while sixteen suffered arrest and nine Ahmadis were detained by the police.
• Cyber Crimes Wing of Lahore booked twenty Ahmadis in four separate cases.
• A fabricated police case was registered against Ms. Ramzan Bibi of Chak no. 120 RB Cheleki, District Nankana under blasphemy clause PPC 295-C. She was arrested and sent to Central Jail Sheikhupura. She is fifty-five years old.
• Mr. Abdul Majeed resident of Shaheen Muslim Town, Taj Chowk, Phandu Road, District Peshawar, aged 20, was accused of blasphemy by a minor named Mr. Imran Ali. The police succumbed to the pressure of the mullas and registered a fabricated case against him on September 10 under PPC 295-C which carries sentence of death.
• Mr. Naeem Ahmad, Mr. Naseem Ahmad, Dr. Shahid Iqbal, Mr. Naseer Ahmad Qamar, Mr. Fazal Ahmad and Ms. Bushra Talib were booked under PPCs 295-B, 295-A, 298-A, 298-B, 298-C, 506-B with FIR Nr. 325 at police station Rajan Pur on July 23, 2020 in connection with an Ahmadiyya primary school which was then sealed.
• Mr. Sharafat Ahmad, Mr. Akbar Ali and Mr. Tahir Naqash were booked under PPCs 298-B and 298-C at police station Mangatanwala, District Nankana on May 2. 2020. The Lahore High Court rejected their application for pre-arrest bail on October 2, 2020. They were arrested. Later PPCs 295-C and 295-B were added on orders of a magistrate on Jan 5, 2021.
• Mr Tariq A. Tahir and Mr. Safwan Ahmad were booked in FIR 83/2020 under blasphemy clause PPC 295-B at P.S. Nagar Parker, Sindh on November 25, 2020. Mr. Tahir was arrested.

Cyber Crimes laws

• FIA Cyber Crimes Wing arrested Mr. Rohan Ahmad, an Ahmadi, and booked him along with Malik Usman Ahmad, Hafiz Tariq Shehzad and unknown persons composer, proof reader, writer, computer operator and owners of phone no. 0333-6708729, 0322-4374750, 0333-6678820. Mr. Rohan Ahmad was booked for allegedly sharing a WhatsApp message regarding essay writing and general knowledge quiz competition on May 26, 2020 with FIR Nr. 29/2020 at Police Station FIA Cyber Crimes Wing, Lahore under PPCs 295-B, 298-C, 120-B, 109, 34 R/W, 2016-PECA-11. Pakistan’s Cyber Crimes Department that works under Federal Investigation Agency conducted a raid on the house of Mr. Rohan Ahmad of Wapda Town, Lahore, arrested and tortured him.
• Malik Zaheer Ahmad was booked under PPCs 295-B, 298-C, 109, PECA-11 with FIR Nr. 77 at Police Station FIA Cyber Crimes Wing, Lahore on September 30, 2020. He was arrested.
• In November, this Cyber Crimes Wing registered a criminal case against Hafiz Muzaffar Ahmad, a Director in Ahmadiyya central office at Rabwah and Malik Tariq Mahmood of Spain. The case was registered with FIR Nr. 124/20 at Police Station Cyber Crimes Wing, Lahore under PPCs 295-B, 298-C, 109, 34 and 11 PECA- 2016.
• Mr. SaleemuddinSaleemuddin, Director GeneralPublic Affairs and Spokesperson of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan, was booked vide FIR No. 9989/2020 at FIA Cyber Crime WingReporting Centre, Lahore on OctoberNovember 28, 2020 under section(s)PPC 295-A, 153-A of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, R/W section 11 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, .2016  PECA.11.

Freedom of religion denied

• An Ahmadiyya place of worship was handed over by authorities to gang leaders of a riot in Kharappar, District Kasur on February 6.
• Miscreants pelted stones on the main-gate of Baitul Khursheed, Ahmadiyya worship place Tench Bhata, Rawalpindi causing damage to the gate.
• On December 29, at about midnight a police squad visited Ahmadiyya worship place Shah Maskeenwala, District Nankana Sahib, desecrated it and took down its minaret.
• An Ahmadiyya worship place was under threat in Johar Town, Lahore in February.
• Unidentified men pelted stones on the Ahmadiyya place of worship in Green Town, Lahore on April 28.
• MPA Mufti Qasim Fakhri lodged a complaint with the Government of Sindh and Deputy Commissioner West, Karachi on his letter-head pad in May against Ahmadiyya place of worship in Baldia Town.
• Ahmadiyya place of worship was at risk in Kotli Nathumalhi, District Narowal. The police told Ahmadis that someone had lodged a complaint on the Citizen Portal Punjab against the written Kalima in Ahmadiyya worship place. Similar messages were received by Ahamdis in Qayampur Sarakwala, Bobak Murali and Narowal City from the administration to erase religious inscriptions from the Ahmadiyya places of worship.
• Sometime back, Ahmadis in Amba Noorya, District Sheikhupura were deprived of the right of religious practice, forbidding them to pray in their place of worship, and their burials in common cemetery. After this, Ahmadis used a house for their congregational prayers. In August, opponents launched a propaganda campaign against Ahmadis, and approched the authorities to restrict their worship.
• Ahmadiyya place of worship was under threat in Chanderkay Mangolay, District Narowal.
• Construction of an Ahmadiyya center was barred and courtyard destroyed in Mirpur Khas, Sindh on February 22.

Official prop to persecution of Ahmadis

• Punjab’s Special Committee re-imposed ban on the Ahmadiyya daily Al-Fazl on January 10.
• PEMRA ordered on May 28 that Ahmadi TV channels should not be carried by any distribution service licensee.
• “Qadianiat basically is a great mischief (Fitna) against Islam”: A federal minister of state Mr. Ali Muhammad Khan (PTI) released a video statement.
• 67 Ahmadiyya graves desecrated by the authorities in District Gujranwala on July 13/14.
• Senator Mushtaq A Khan (JI) in a public Khatme Nabuwwat rally in Peshawar called Ahmadis “Traitors to the Constitution of Pakistan” and termed them “mercenaries of the US, of the Realm of Disbelief (Aalame Kufr)”.
• “Ghazi Faisal (the killer of Tahir Naseem, a former Ahmadi) should be immediately released through a Presidential Ordinance, in view of his great service to Islam”: MNA Imran Ahmad Shah demanded in National Assembly on August 12.

The role of legal community

• In January, Azad Kashmir High Court: “The Court issues verdict on appeal of Tehrik Khatme Nabuwwat. The Azad government is directed to undertake (required) legislation through the Assembly.

“A separate record should be prepared of non-Muslims including Qadianis: Order of Azad Kashmir High Court

“Separate voter lists; separate right of representation should be accepted”. The verdict was announced by (Acting) Chief Justice Azhar Saleem Babar and Justice Shiraz Kiyani.

• Chief Justice LHC remarked in a (blasphemy) hearing: “A case can be registered under Section 154 on receipt of information; inquiry and evidence are issues thereafter.”
• The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) demanded the federal interior ministry in July to forbid the Ahmadi community sacrificing animals on Eid ul Azha.
• District Bar Association, Dera Ismail Khan organized a Khatme Nabuwwat Seminar on February 20.
• The daily Mashriq of Lahore published, “Lawyers of the Allama Lawyers Forum protest against Israel, outside the High Court”. They carried banners: Qadiani, Israel, US, India, France collusion — Death on it.

Hateful propaganda

• The portrait of Dr. Abdus Salam was put up outside the National Science College, Gujranwala along with other renowned national luminaries. A group of youth who claimed to be members of some State Youth Parliament came over to the site with black paint and sprayer and blackened Dr. Salam’s portrait. The activity was recorded and its video was posted on social media. The youth shouted anti-Ahmadi slogans, as well.
• Alami Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat (AMTKN) Chakwal in the Punjab (Phone # 0301-5782490) issued a pamphlet titled Qaumi Ehad (National Pledge). In its foreword it requires the reader to make a pledge to uphold country’s defense and “to never desist from sacrificing my life for the belief in End of Prophethood (KN) and the Honor of the Messenger (p.b.u.h.).” Also, “Till I am not cut down for the honor of the Prophet, by God, my faith is not perfected.”
• A huge billboard was put up in a busy central location of Lahore; it called explicitly for murder of blasphemers. The message on it:

Muhammad (peace be upon him)

There is only one punishment for insolence against the Prophet.

Head is to be chopped from the body. Head is to be chopped from the body.

• Khatme Nabuwwat Youth Force Pakistan circulated a leaflet in social media. This pamphlet is mostly a mix of hate, bigotry, ignorance and pure lies.
• Maulvi Fazlur Rahman of JUI-F held a big conference with reference to 7 September as the Victory Day when in 1974 Ahmadis were declared to be Not-Muslim through Constitutional Amendment Nr. II. A number of other prominent mullas including Abdul Ghafoor Haidari, Shah Ahmad Noorani, Amjad Ali, Shahabuddin Popalzai and Mahmudur Rahman addressed the conference and spoke filth against the Ahmadiyya Jamaat.
• Sirajul Haq (JI) spoke blatantly against Ahmadis in a conference at Rabwah: “Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is a kafir (infidel), without any argument. Qadianis are involved in the murder of clerics; they want to spread chaos in the country. … Nawaz Sharif martyred Mumtaz Qadri. Nawaz Sharif paved the way for Qadianiat in the country”. At another occasion he said: “The poisonous snake of Qadianiat has turned into poisonous dragon with the backing of world powers”.
• “Ahmadiyya is a wounded snake; its head should be crushed”: End of Prophethood Conference under the auspices of All Pakistan Lawyers Forum on September 10.
• Majlis Ahrar Islam comprises Deobandi mullas who do not indulge in activities like festivities on Holy Prophet’s birthday. They do not take out a procession anywhere in Pakistan on 12 Rabiul Awwal; however they do so in Rabwah. Here their aim is to agitate people against Ahmadis and indulge in insulting and provocative speech. They set aside their religious norm, and avail of the occasion.
• Rabwah remained vulnerable because of numerous conferences held in this town by anti-Ahmadi mullas with official approval and assistance; the participants were incited against the Ahmadiyya community.

Ahmadi women

• Arrest of an Ahmadi lady Ms. Ramzan Bibi under PPC 295-C: the first ever such act of tyranny since the promulgation of Ordinance XX in 1984.
• Ms. Bushra Talib was booked under PPCs 295-B, 295-A, 298-A, 298-B, 298-C, 506-B with FIR Nr. 325 at police station Rajan Pur on July 23, 2020 for serving the humanity — in a school. She is at risk of imprisonment for life.
• Miss Rimsha daughter of Mr. Muhammad Pervez, Ahmadi, passed the eighth grade and was to join the ninth. When she went to the (Government) Islamabad Model School for admission, they refused to admit her — for her faith.
• Mrs. Najia Ahmad, an Ahmadi resident of Hayatabad, Peshawar, is a teacher at a government girls’ school in village Tehkal Bala, Peshawar. Local mullas spoke against her in public. For her security, the police told her to stop going to school.
• For security reasons Ahmadi females are unable to participate in weekly Friday prayers throughout the country. They could not avail the facility of Ahmadiyya prayer centers for their worship, nor could they participate in Friday and Eid congregations. Their periodical Misbah is also banned by the government.

Threats

• Mr. Afaaq Ahmad, Ahmadi, of Hayatabad, Peshawar found a shopping bag in his garage. There was a stone, a bullet and a piece of paper with message: “Blasphemer is worthy of death” inside it.
• Mr. Zafar Ahmad from Mahmooda, District Rawalpindi runs a stationery shop at Chak Bailey Khan, 2 km from his village. On August 13, some men came to his shop and told him, “You are a Mirzai, you should convert to Islam or leave this area; otherwise, we will kill you.”
• Mr. Kabir Ahmad Bhatti an Ahmadi, received a threat letter from Tahaffuz e Khatme Nabuwwat in which it was written: “We have come to know of your family’s links with apostate Qadiani infidels. If it is true, then you should know that killing of a person who has such contacts, is a source of reward for us. …”

Civic discrimination

• Nine Ahmadi students expelled from school in Chak no 22/75 Syedwala, District Nankana for their Ahmadiyya faith.
• Organizers of the Saleem Nisar, Ashfaq Memorial Tape Ball Cricket Tournament 2020, Attock, Punjab, planned and advertised this tournament scheduled for the post-Eid holiday. The publicity sheet boldly mentioned the following:

“Note:  Qadianis will not be allowed to participate in our tournament.”

• ARY TV channel’s Sabir Shakir and Ch. Ghulam Hussain fabricated lies in attempt to harm the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan on April 30 and May 14.
• In anti-PTI government campaign, four PML-N MNAs and MPAs uploaded on social media their resignation letters. In these the PTI is accused of, inter alia, “Mirzaion ki beja hamayat karney par” (for undeserved support to Ahmadis).
• How long will Pakistan continue to marginalize Ahmadis? — An Op-ed in the Express Tribune by Mr. Raza Habib Raja on May 5.

Miscellaneous

•  “… Those who are friendly to Mirzais should flee abroad with them”: Mulla Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s (Head TLP) statement in a video
• Punjab Assembly passes Tahaffuz-e-Bunyad-e-Islam Bill — theocracy vigorously on the march; politicizing of religion reached still higher level at the hands of mullas, PML-Q and PTI in July.

Summarized thematic info regarding the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan during 2019

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

• Mr. Mehdi Khan was shot dead on January 03, 2019 in District Mandi Bahauddin.
• Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad was murdered on March 13, 2019 in District Attock.
• Homeopath Aziz Ahmad was murdered on March 13, 2019 in District Attock.

Faith-based assaults

• Mr. Yunus Ahmad was beaten up with rods on October 11, 2019 in Goth Massan (Sindh). The next day two Ahmadi brothers, Mr. Imran Ali and Mr. Akbar Ali sons of Mr. Anwar Ali were also attacked.
• On the night of August 21, 2019 approximately 20 miscreants attacked the residence of Mr. Irshad Ali of Mahni Sial Chak Hans, District Khanewal. They beat up the family causing injuries.
• On August 23, Khatme Nabuwwat activists attacked a new Ahmadi’s home at about 10 p.m., smashed his TV and its dish antenna. They beat up the couple; the husband was taken to hospital for first aid.
• A group of religious bigots beat up Mr. Talaat and his brother in Sehnasa village of Azad Kashmir on January 18. Also Mr. Hafeez and Mr. Mahmud were attacked in their shop with knife. Mr. Hafeez suffered minor injuries. Ahmadis reported the incident to police. The police asked a Panchayat to mediate. The attackers sought pardon and had to be forgiven.
• On September 4, 2019, some youth came to the clinic of an Ahmadi, Mr. Javed Ahmad at Jauleki, District Gujranwala, and attacked him. He reported the incident to the police.

Religion-based tyranny, arrests and prosecution

• Application of Ahmadi-specific laws, religious laws and registration of faith-based police cases was relentlessly undertaken by the state and the society. This year eight Ahmadis were booked by the police while 5 suffered arrest and 7 Ahmadis were detained by the police.
• Cyber Crimes Wing of Lahore booked four Ahmadis in two separate cases for allegedly handling translations of Holy Quran. Mr. Mahmud Hashmi and Mr. Waqar Ahmad were arrested.
• In May 2019 Mr. Zafar Abbas Joiya, Ahmadi was arrested under PPC 298-C, an Ahmadi-specific clause, simply because he had fixed a decorative plate of “MashAllah” (What God has willed) on his newly built house in Joharabad, District Khushab. MashAllah is not one of the Islamic terms forbidden to Ahmadis in law.
• Police arrested Mr. Vishal Ahmad and Mr. Muhammad Mustafa under PPC 186/506 unjustly after it demolished a niche of an Ahmadiyya mosque in Chak 161 Murad, District Bahawalpur.
• Mr. Maqbul Ahmad Naz an Ahmadi was charged under PPC 298-C, 298 and 153-A in police station Kotli, Azad Kashmir on June 25, 2019 in FIR nr. 234. He was accused of sharing Ahmadiyya information and position on some religious issues over social media. Police also detained his father and brother unjustly.
• The police detained Mr. Ali and his friends when they complained on vigilantes’ attack on them on August 21, 2019.
• Three Ahmadis were detained by the police (DSP) in Massan Badda, District Larkana in October 2019.
• The police detained Mr. Mubashir Ahmad Tanveer and put him behind bars in Chak 5/3L, District Jhang on March 16, 2019 for allegedly tearing a poster.

Freedom of religion denied

• Ahmadiyya mosque in Chak 161 Murad, District Bahawalpur was partially destroyed under the supervision of police and officials on October 25, 2019.
• An Ahmadiyya prayer centre in Tench Bhata, Rawalpindi was closed down in January 2019 by the authorities on the excuse of law and order. An Ahmadiyya prayer centre Baitul Ata situated on Peshawar Road in Rawalpindi was also closed down by the police on the same excuse of law and order.
• Ahmadis of Amba Nurya, District Sheikhupura were denied worship in the only mosque for them in the village, in June 2019. On the complaint of mullas, police forced Ahmadis to sign a declaration stating that they would not say their prayers in the mosque.
• An Ahmadiyya prayer centre in General Hospital area, Lahore was sealed by authorities in August 2019.
• Four youths came over to Bait ul Mahmud (the Ahmadiyya mosque) in Wah Cantt from the adjacent playground. They set the watchman’s cabin on fire with inflammable material. This damaged the cabin.
• A house of an Ahmadi, Chaudhary Liaqat Ali was used by Ahmadis for Friday prayers in Askari II, Gujranwala. In September 2019 the Station Commander sent for Mr. Ali and told him that they were offering Friday prayers illegally there, so there should be no more Friday prayers at his house.
• The administration stopped Ahmadis from saying their prayers in their newly built prayer centre in Sathiali Kalan, District Nankana in September 2019 on the complaint of outsider mullas.
• Ahmadis in Narain Garh, District Faisalabad faced difficulties in repairing their mosque’s roof and had to deposit a surety bond of Rs. 100,000 on a stamp paper in the police station.
• An unidentified miscreant came to the main gate of Ahmadiyya prayer centre in Wah Cantt on the morning of September 19, 2019. He kicked the main gate, piled up some dry grass & bushes there and set these on fire. The same miscreant came again the next morning at 05:30. He was holding a rod in his hand. He struck down the security cameras and took these away with him.
• Construction of an Ahmadiyya prayer centre was interrupted by the administration on the pressure of mullas in Jalalpur Jattan, District Gujrat in November 2019.
• Ahmadiyya mosques in Karachi were threatened to be sealed through the efforts of an anti-Ahmadi activist Ms. Basma Norine who poses to be a journalist and is in league with mullas. This caused a lot of hardship for Ahmadis in Karachi in May and July this year.

It can be said with confidence that such attacks on Ahmadis are motivated, planned and implemented by Khatme Nabuwwat organizations.

Judiciary’s role

• Justice Shujaat Ali Khan issued a 40-page verdict in March this year and directed the administration and police to implement the Punjab Quran Act 2011 in true spirit (read: rigorously—against Ahmadis).  Mulla Muawiyah lodged an application on September 25, 2019 with DPO Chiniot to implement the decision of the court, although an earlier inquiry had confirmed that Ahmadis were not printing the Holy Quran anymore. The police is investigating—once again. 
• On January 11, 2019 Judge Abdul Qayyum acquitted the accused charged over the murder in 2017 of Advocate Saleem Latif, Ahmadiyya community president of District Nankana.
• Mr. Qamar ul Zia, Ahmadi was stabbed to death in broad daylight on March 1, 2016 when he was bringing his kids from school. The murderer was arrested by the police same day. He confessed to the attack and told the police that he had done that to uphold the honour of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.). On June 27, 2019 Session Judge Nadeem Ahmad Ansari of Ferozwala, District Sheikhupura acquitted him.
• A session judge sentenced three Ahmadis of District Sheikhupura, Messrs. Ghulam Ahmad and Mubashir Ahmad, to death on October 11, 2017 on a fabricated charge of blasphemy. Appeal against this decision was then made to the Lahore High Court. The Court has not found time to hear them for two years. These Ahmadis are in prison for over 5 years.

Cyber Crimes laws

• FIA Cyber Crimes Wing arrested Mr. Mahmud Hashmi, an Ahmadi, and booked him under PPC 295-A and Ahmadi-specific PPC 298-C in FIR Nr. 88/2019 dated 20.6.2019 at Police Station FIA Cyber Crimes Wing, Lahore. Crimes under PPC 295-A can be assigned to Anti-terrorism courts. His crime is not promotion of terrorism or violence or sexual obscenity or anything of that nature; he is accused of sharing with others a translation of the Holy Quran.
• Three Ahmadis, Mr. Waqar Ahmad, Syed Mubashir Ahmad Ayaz and Mr. M. Azhar Mangla have been charged under PPC 295-A, 298-C, 295-B, 120-B, 109, R/W-34, PECA-11 by Cyber Crimes Wing Lahore on November 12, 2019. Mr. Ahmad was arrested and is behind bars. Under PPC 295-B the accused can be imprisoned for life. They allegedly indulged in a project on translation of the Holy Quran.

Hateful propaganda

• Universal Traders, traders of Akbari Mandi, Lahore, Punjab openly displayed a hateful banner threatening death to the entire Ahmadiyya community of Rabwah. It carried: “The belief in Khatme Nabuwwat (p.b.u.h.): If there is an attempt to make changes to the 1973 Constitution, Chenab Nagar will be colored red with the blood of Qadianis and the world will forget even Tamerlane. (Emphasis provided in original)…

      “I accept Qadianis to be infidels, without any argument. Qadianis must be put to death. (In the light of Holy Quran and Hadith)”.

• A writer, Zafar Ji (perhaps pen-name) wrote a hateful anti-Ahmadi novel for the young and gave it the title: Ishq Kay Qaidi (Prisoners of Love). On the second page it claims to be “a great historical novel in memory of the Khatme Nabuwwat Movement 1953.” This novel is full of false claims, baseless allegations as well as lies against the Ahmadiyya community and the government of those days.

This story is being reproduced in series on weekly basis in “Bachon ka Islam” in the daily Islam, Lahore.

• An ad for anti-Ahmadi publications and donations was published in daily The News, Lahore on May 11, 2019. It was sponsored by Aalami Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat (AMTKN). Muslims were requested to donate funds, pay Zakat, Sadaqat and Fitrana to finance the anti-Ahmadiyya projects, to ‘protect Muslims against the apostatic activities of Qadianis and to safeguard the dogma of End of Prophethood.’
• AMTKN celebrated countrywide Implementation of Anti-Qadianiat Act Day (yaume nifaze imtinae Qadianiat) in June 2019.
• A maniacal anti-Ahmadi op-ed was published in many vernacular newspapers by one Umar Khan Jozevi in the last week of July 2019. This writer used abusive and vulgar language against Ahmadis and their holy founder.
• Main stream political mullas like Fazl ur Rahman (JUI-F) do not hesitate to incite the public by targeting Ahmadis. In the recent protest/Dharna style Azadi March, Maulvi Rahman spoke often against Ahmadis, and accused Mr. Imran Khan of liaising with “Jews and Qadianis”.
• Majlis Ahrar Islam comprises Deobandi mullas who do not indulge in activities like festivities on Holy Prophet’s birthday. They do not take out a procession anywhere in Pakistan on 12 Rabiul Awwal; however they do so in Rabwah. Here their aim is to agitate people against Ahmadis and indulge in insulting and provocative speech. They set aside their religious norm, and avail of the occasion.
• Rabwah remained vulnerable because of numerous conferences held in this town by anti-Ahmadi mullas; the participants were incited against the Ahmadiyya community.

Ahmadi women

• For security reasons Ahmadi females are unable to participate in weekly Friday prayers throughout the country. They could not avail the facility of Ahmadiyya prayer centers for their worship, nor could they participate in Friday and Eid congregations. Their periodical Misbah is also banned by the government.

Threats

• Mr. Kashif Aslam, an Ahmadi of Quetta, received threats on WhatsApp messages in February from someone who claimed to represent TTP. “Pay up Rs 2 million or face death”, Ahmadi was told.
• Three community office-bearers in Larkana and Mr. Shah Ali Chandio received threat letters from JUI(F) activists in November 2019. “Enough is enough. Quit Larkana, otherwise we will see you on return from the Azadi March and will lay a siege on your mosque,” the letter elaborated.

Official prop to persecution of Ahmadis

• The federal minister for parliamentary affairs Azam Swati on a private news channel “Hum News” on November 11, 2019 said, “I curse them and Imran Khan also curses Qadiyaniat”.
• PEMRA in violation of Pakistan Constitution Art. 20 issued orders in January to all Regional Managers to stop transmission and relaying a number of STV channels, including the Ahmadiyya MTA 1&2. It is relevant that these two channels are relayed worldwide and there is no other country that considers their programs and content objectionable. This is stark bigotry and abuse of power.
• Hafiz Tahir Mahmud Ashrafi, President of Ulama Board, Punjab is on state pay roll. In a video on https://youtube/rGTeG3or7k, he is seen in an open multi-religious meeting asserting the following (extract):

“….I am not willing to accept them (Ahmadis) in this country. . . To speak against Qadianis is Religious Harmony.”

• Mr. Shaukat Yusufzai (PTI) is a minister in KPK government. On August 7 he addressed a government-sponsored conference on the theme: End of Prophethood and Muslims’ responsibilities. He was quoted by the extra right-wing daily Islam on August 8, 2019 as:

None can think of any change to the law on Khatme Nabuwwat: Shaukat Yusufzai

Whoever is called Kafir in the Constitution, is a Kafir; no middle position.

Political sermons are delivered in some of the mosques. Ulama will soon be paid monthly allowance: Information Minister KPK

• Mufti Muneeb ur Rahman is on public pay roll as Chairman of the Moon-sighting Committee. The daily Dunya of September 21, 2019 published his lengthy report on his ‘Five days in Britain.” He wrote that he said in one of his public talks: “You should rebut this propaganda that life has been made difficult for Qadianis in Pakistan. In Pakistan, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis and people of other religions are living peaceful lives…..In India, the world community is witness to the cruel treatment of Muslims, Christians and the lower castes,” etc.

Muneeb is the same mulla who sometimes back, on a visit to a neighboring town of Rabwah demanded that penalty of death be imposed on Ahmadis for “their denial of End of Prophethood.”

• In October, PTV, the state television decided to air an anti-Ahmadiyya statement by an Indian political leader. It was stated that Mr. Vaghela said that Ahmadiyya community in India was in league with the extremist RSS in their anti-Muslim activism. The PTV failed to mention that this fake news was six years old, and also Ahmadis then had condemned it as false and demanded Indian authorities to hold an inquiry in the incident.

Ahmadiyya spokesman in Pakistan termed the PTV’s action condemnable and provocative. He called on the Ministry of Information to investigate the matter.

• A group of the ruling PTI party, from Lahore in a press statement on JUI (F)’s Dharna stated, inter alia: “These days apparently, there is no issue concerning Khatme Nabuwwat, however if there is a problem, the Maulana should tell us; we sit in assemblies and we’ll present it there. If it is not resolved there, we ourselves will join the Maulana in protest.”
• The vernacular daily 92 News, Faisalabad published on August 1, 2019 that Islamabad Bar Association has made Khatme Nabuwwat oath mandatory for membership.

Sanitizing text books

The departmental staff in the Punjab and KPK made desirable small changes to the KN issue in relevant text books. In reaction to the mulla’s protest, the authorities hurriedly withdrew the changes and promised disciplinary action against people considered responsible.

Civic discrimination

• The Express Tribune of September 26, 2019 published a disturbing report: “Seeds of intolerance: Private building in Karachi displays anti-minority notice draws mass ire.”

A notice displayed in the reception area of Machiyara Residency stated that non-Muslims were prohibited purchasing, renting of flats there.

• The principal of Jamal International School in Peshawar told Ahmadi children to stop coming to his ‘International’ school for being Ahmadi.
• Altaf Ahmad, an Ahmadi’s daughter’s wedding was impaired by mullas in Jhuddo Naukot, District Mirpur Khas on March 14, 2019.

Miscellaneous

• Ms Jannat Hussain AC Attock was harassed by KN activists, for speaking in favor of tolerance and human rights of minorities. She was made to apologize to extremist elements and declare that Ahmadis are Kafir.
• The Punjab Assembly passed a resolution on the eve of new year that sought anti-blasphemy law to be most stringent.  

December 31, 2019

Summarized thematic info regarding the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan during 2018

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

• Qazi Shaban Ahmad Khan was killed on June 25, 2018 at his house in Lahore.
• Mr. Muhammad Zafrullah was shot dead on August 29, 2018 in District Nankana.

Faith-based murder attempts and assaults

• Mr. Sajjad Ahmad survived an attack on his life on May 26, 2018 in Lahore.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ziauddin were shot at and injured on July 7, 2018 in Faisalabad.
• Mr. Jamil Ahmad was injured in an attack on September 29, 2018 in Sanghar.
• Dr. Manzoor Ahmad and Dr. Imran Ahmad were attacked by a youth carrying pistol on October 2, 2018 in Kotli, Azad Kashmir.
• Mr. Abdul Sattar, Mr. Nazir Ahmad and another Ahmadi were beaten up severely on April 23, 2018 in Sialkot.

Religion-based arrests and prosecution

Application of Ahmadi-specific laws, religion laws and registration of faith-based police cases was relentlessly undertaken by the state and society. This year 62 Ahmadis were booked by the police, while 15 suffered arrest or detention.

Attacks on places of worship, and worship

• Attack, gross desecration and severe damage to an Ahmadiyya mosque in Sialkot, Punjab on May 23/24, 2018. Officials engaged a mob to destroy the adjescent venerated site. Two Ahmadis booked by the police. Riot leaders thank the district administration for substantial support.
• On demand of mischief mongers, the authorities sealed an Ahmadiyya mosque on May 28, 2018 in Deryan Wala, District Narowal.
• Ahmadiyya prayer centre in Joharabad was sealed by the police in April 2018. The police demanded an NOC for the centre.
• Mob attack on Ahmadis and Ahmadiyya mosque on August 23, 2018 in District Faisalabad. Lies and disinformation on social media fan fire of anti-Ahmadiyya hostility. Mosque set on fire. Six Ahmadis injured. Truce imposed by authorities.
• On demand of a local mulla, the authorities locked unlawfully Ahmadiyya mosque in Goth Qamaruddin, District Noshehro Firoz, Sindh in October 2018.
• On demand of some mischief mongers, the police stopped Ahmadis’ worship in their prayer centre in Sillanwali, District Sargodha in June 2018.
• On demand of mullas, the police stopped Ahmadis’ worship in their prayer centre in Peelovains, District Khushab in February 2018.
• Hateful graffiti on Ahmadiyya mosque’s wall in a cantonment area in District Rawalpindi on August 5, 2018.
• Ahmadiyya prayer centre in Johar Town, Lahore was at risk in October 2018 as the mullas demanded closure of the prayer centre.
• An Ahmadiyya prayer centre in Lahore under threat of closing down – in the name of security.
• Ahmadiyya mosque in Qiyam Pur Saddey, District Narowal was under threat of take-over. The authorities were also threatened with law and order problem and bloodshed by Islamist bigots in June 2018.
• Ahmadiyya mosque escaped desecration in Ghoghiat, Sargodha in March 2018. Mullas issued notices to demolish its minarets and niche.
• Ahmadiyya mosque in Karachi was threatened on April 19, 2018. Mullas blocked the road, protested and staged a sit-in. Ahmadi families had to flee from the neighborhood.
• Ahmadiyya mosque in Uwrah, District Sialkot was under threat of mullas in June 2018.
• Ahmadiyya mosques in Multan were under serious threat of extremists in February 2018.

Religion-based tyranny

• Mr. Almas Ayub Butt was charged under PPC 298-B&C in Pasrur, District Sialkot on July 21, 2018.
• Provincial minister Mr. Zaeem Qadri threatened murder – personally, to any Ahmadi who peddles Ahmadiyya translation of the Quran. He brazenly refused constitutional rights to Ahmadis in January 2018.
• The police registered a case under PPC 298-C against Mr. Muhammad Ahmad for undertaking Qurbani in Guldasht Town Gujjarpura, District Lahore on September 5, 2018.
• Special mention of anti-Ahmadi laws in Electronic Crimes Bill (Amendment) moved by PTI, presented in the Senate on September 20, 2018.
• Mr. Shahid Hussain was charged under PPC 298-C for undertaking Qurbani in Sadhokey, District Gujranwala in August 2018.
• The police booked two Ahmadis, Mr. Abdus Sattar Butt and Mr. Mumtaz Butt on May 12, 2018 under section 132(2) of Punjab Government Act 2013 with FIR 271/18 at police station Nikapur, Sialkot, on fabricated charge of ‘unlawful construction’ of a residence built a century ago during the Raj.
• Mr. Arfat Qadir was charged under PPC 298-C in Basti Punjab, District Rajan Pur on October 2018.
• Mr. Waqar Ahmad Bajwa, Mr. Waqas Ahmad, Mr. Nadeem Ahmad and 4 or 5 unnamed were implicated in a police case, Nr 283/18 under PPC 342 for wrongful confinement on June 3, 2018 in Rabwah.
• A police case was registered against three Ahmadis Mr. Abdus Salaam, Mr. Abbas, Mr. Muhammad Inaam and twenty-five un-named Ahmadis under PPC 295/354, 337 A, 337 L, 148 and 149 on June 22, 2018 in Rabwah.
• The police registered FIR Nr 363/18 at Police Station Mangtanwala, District Nankana against Messers Shamoon Ahmad, Nosheerwan Ahmad, Zeeshan Ahmad and Nawaz Ahmad under PPC 506, 337, 148, 149 on June 30, 2018.

Freedom of religion denied

• Ahmadis were not allowed to practice their religious ritual of Qurbani on Eid-ul-Azha in some locations in the Punjab.
• An intelligence agency recommended further restrictions on Ahmadis’ Freedom of Religion and Human Rights in May 2018.
• Ahmadis were made to sign an agreement that violated their rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Police DSP became a party to deprive Ahmadis of their rights in Baidadpur Virkan, Sheikhupura in August, 2018.
• Freedom of worship was denied or restricted in Districts Sargodha and Khushab of Punjab in April 2018. KN activists availed administration and police support to implement their designs.

Judiciary’s role

• Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court (IHC) delivered a very unjust verdict against Ahmadis, on the basis of End of Prophethood in March 2018. It had serious impact on Ahmadis’ fundamental rights and freedom of faith. Siddiqui quoted with great satisfaction Para 13 of Raja Zafarul Haq’s Report: The new addition of Section 48A has resulted in making the previous Articles 7B and 7C which became operative 15 years ago on 20.06.2002 as perpetually operative. Raja Haq is a rabid anti-Ahmadi politico.
• Two affidavits to state one’s faith, one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, were enforced by NADRA. Ahmadis are made to express the ‘non-Muslim’ status imposed on them. These affidavits are the outcome of verdict given by Justice Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court on March 9, 2018.
• Bail applications were mostly denied or hearings were repeayedly postponed.

Burial problems

• Mr. Hameed Ahmad was denied burial in the common cemetery in Rafiqabad, District Layyah on May 25, 2018.
• Mrs. Amina Bibi was denied burial in the common cemetery in Chak 5/3 Ahmad Pur Sial, District Jhang on September 30, 2018.
• Ahmadis were stopped to offer an Ahmadi’s funeral prayer by his non-Ahmadi son and TLP activists in Chak 103/6R, District Bahawal Nagar in September 2018.

Torture

• Chaudhry Aslam, his son and nephews were beaten up by a mob in Chak 563 GB, District Faisalabad on January 7, 2018.

Blasphemy laws

• Mr. Saeed Ahmad Waraich was falsely charged under PPC 295-C in Tandlianwala, District Faisalabad on January 20, 2018. He is in prison.
• Mr. Javed Ahmad Ghuman was charged in a fabricated blasphemy case under PPC 295-C in Chak 368 TDA, District Layya on July 1, 2018. He is in prison.
• Ahmadis in Mirpur Khas narrowly escaped being charged under blasphemy law in March 2018.

Hateful propaganda

• Hate material included in KPK text book containing derogatory remarks against the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya community.
• Windfall of hateful Khatme Nabuwwat conferences in Punjab. Three major anti-Ahmadi conferences were held in Lahore in March 2018, and numerous secondary ones. Official support visible throughout.
• ‘Exploit religion’ was the trend in election campaign 2018 with most of the political parties. Khatme Nabuwwat was made the issue.
• Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on unchecked all across the country throughout the year. Rabwah remained vulnerable because of numerous conferences held in this town by anti-Ahmadi mullas; the participants were transported here and were  incited against the Ahmadiyya community.
• In June 2018 Mulla Khadim Rizvi of TLP prescribed ‘Death’ for Ahmadis who do not become Muslim.
• Jamaat Islami held anti-Ahmadiyya ‘Jurists’ Conference’ in Islamabad in October 2018.

Ahmadi women

• Ms Atika Shahid, an Ahmadi young lady, a gold-medalist, an M.Phil. student at National Institute of Bio-technology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad was expelled by the administration from the course on September 26, 2018 for her faith.
• Ms. Ufaq Feroz, headmistress in Government Girls High School Jan Muhammad Wala, Tehsil Kot Momin, District Sargodha faced faith-based hostility in March 2018.

Threats

• Mr. Mubashir Ahmad, an Ahmadi received threats to his life and felt so disturbed that he stopped sending his children to school in Nankana on January 11, 2018.
• Mr Hamza Farooq an Ahmadi student faced hatred and life threat in Lala Musa, District Gujrat on August 6, 2018.
• Murder threat to Ahmadis in Mandi Bahauddin on August 20, 2018.
• Mr. Zahid Shafique an Ahmadi received a threat letter in Quaidabad, District Khushab on September 8, 2018.
• Extremists threatened LUMS university for its students’ visit to Rabwah in October 2018.
• Mr. Khaleeq Ahmad is a technician, expert in repairing transformers. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan sent threatening letters to this Ahmadi’s fellows in profession urging his social boycott in Mardan in April 2018.

Official prop to persecution of Ahmadis

• Azad Jammu and Kashmir Parliament (PML-N majority) followed Pakistan to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims in February 2018.
• Brilliant Ahmadi, Professor Atif Mian was asked unjustly and indefensibly by the government to resign from Economic Advisory Council. His faith was the issue.
• Move (by a JUI-F member) in the National Assembly to impose Death Penalty on Ahmadis in June 2018.
• Official encouragement, facilitation and even participation in Ahmadis’ persecution remained rampant in numerous ways.

Civic discrimination

• Rabwah town’s civic situation was deplored by a non-Ahmadi journalist in February 2018. Councilors and police were blamed.
• Plot against an Ahmadi-owned school in Kot Shera, District Gujranwala in September 2018.

Miscellaneous

• Incidents of religion-based severe harassment of Ahmadi businessmen were reported from different places.
• Ahmadis were denied sports activities on demand of Mulla Ilyas Chinioti, an MPA of PML-N, in Rabwah in March 2018.
• US declared Pakistan CPC in December.

Summarized thematic info regarding the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan during 2017

Ahmadis were murdered for their faith

• Mr. Saleem Lateef was target-killed on March 30, 2017 in Nankana.
• Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad was gunned down on April 7, 2017 in Lahore.
• Ms. Tahira Parveen Malik was murdered on April 18, 2017 in Lahore.
• Mr. Basharat Ahmad was killed on May 3, 2017 in Rahimyar Khan.

Faith-based murder attempts and assaults

• Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim survived an attack on his life on June 10, 2017 in Lahore.
• Armed men attempted attack on Mr. Basharat Ahmad in Syedwala on November 17.

Religion-based arrests and prosecution

• This year 77 Ahmadis were booked by the police while 26 suffered arrest or detention.

Attacks on worship and places of worship

• The Ahmadiyya mosque in Muridkay, District Sheikhupura was set on fire by a deranged youth at about 3 a.m. on August 28, 2017.
• The construction of Ahmadiyya community centre was stopped by the administration under the pressure of mullas in Kahkashan Colony, Rabwah.
• On demand of mullas, the administration stopped Ahmadis’ worship in their local prayer centre in Iqbal Town, Lahore.
• Ahmadis were denied repairs and upgrade of their mosque in Mandhiala Waraich, District Gujranwala by the administration, under pressure of mullas, in June 2017.
• Ahmadis were denied construction of their community centre in Dhor, District Nawabshah, under pressure of mullas in June 2017.
• Ahmadis were denied construction of their prayer centre in Gorgaij, District Larkana in July 2017.
• The administration ordered Ahmadis to close down the main-gate of their mosque in December 2017 under the pressure of mullas in Lodhran.
• Ahmadis in Pilasor, District TT Singh were made to raise the outer wall of their mosque so that the minarets of their mosque became invisible from outside.
• The administration ordered Ahmadis to demolish the minarets and niche of their mosque in District Muzaffar Garh during December 2017.

Religion-based tyranny

• Mr. Idrees Ahmad and Mr. Sabah-ul-Zafar were most wrongfully awarded three years’ prison sentence by an ATA court in Faisalabad on May 31, 2017.
• Seven more Ahmadi pressmen of Rabwah were implicated in a wrongful police case in Lahore on October 25, 2017.
• The President of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Rabwah (the main body of Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan) and Mr. Naseer Ahmad Farooqi, the District Amir of Ahmadiyya community in Quetta were booked under PPC 419, 420, 427 and 34 with FIR no. 140 in City police station, Quetta on October 11, 2017.
• The police booked Mr. Naveed A. Khan under T.P. 337H2 and violation of A02015-A013/20/65/2B on October 23, 2017 in Rabwah.
• The police arrested Mr. Shahbaz Ahmad Bajwa with FIR no. 31/17 under The Punjab Security Ordinance 2015, on February 19, 2017 in District Bahawalpur.
• The police registered a case against Mr. Muzaffar Ahmad under PPC 107/51 and arrested him in May 2017 in District Sialkot.
• Mr. Arif Ahmad and Mr. Amir Ahmad were implicated in a false police case under PPC 107/151 on November 17, 2017.
• Mr. Zafrullah was booked in a bogus police case under section 337/H, 34B etc.
• The mulla imposed total surrender on spineless government in October 2017 over Ahmadis’ right of vote.
• Prime Minister Azad Kashmir stated on June 10, 2017, “Immediate action will be taken against Qadianis’ activities in Kotli. …”
• Captain ® Safdar of the ruling party made a rabidly anti-Ahmadiyya speech in the National Assembly on October 9, 10, 2017; the Speaker did not interrupt him.
• A resolution was moved in AJK Assembly by the ruling (PML-N) party on April 26, 2017 that Ordinance XX (anti-Ahmadiyya law) should be vigorously implemented in letter and spirit. The Assembly passed the resolution.
• Rana Sanaullah, Law Minister in Punjab also said, “Ahmadis, more than any other non-Muslim minority, are dangerous to the Islamic faith,” (The daily Din; Lahore, October 10, 2017)
• All Parties Namus Risalat (honour of the prophet) Conference targeted Ahmadis in Dreamland Hotel, Islamabad on February 1, 2017.

Freedom of religion denied

• On March 13, 2017 two Ahmadis in Lahore, Mr. Amjad Iqbal Saloni and Mr. Ikram Ilahi were charged under PPC 298-C and 295-A. They were arrested and denied bail.
• Punjab government started afresh investigation whether Ahmadis are printing their prime and foremost scripture, the Holy Quran.
• Ahmadis were not allowed to practice their religious ritual of Qurbani on Eid-ul-Azha in some locations in the Punjab.
• Rana Sanaullah told the Punjab Assembly, “Constitution provides full religious freedom to all the minorities in Pakistan, but this could not be given to Ahmadis as they do not consider themselves a minority.” October 2017

The Judiciary’s role

• Three Ahmadis, Mr. Mubashir Ahmad, Mr. Ghulam Ahmad and Mr. Ihsan Ahmad of Bhoiwal were sentenced to death by a judge Muhammad Akram in Ferozwala on October 11, 2017.
• The police registered FIR Nr. 65 in March 2017 against 40 Ahmadis, in Police Station Choa Saydan Shah, District Chakwal for the murder of Mr. Naeem Shafiq – a member of the rioting and attacking mob, which attacked Ahmadiyya mosque in Dulmial last year. This was done at the orders of a judge.

Burial problems

• Twenty Ahmadis of Lathianwala, District Faisalabad were charged under PPC 407/451 and arrested on October 6, 2017. They had resisted takeover of Ahmadis’ cemetery land.
• Malik Safdar, brother of Malik Hameedulla former District Amir, was denied burial in the common cemetery in Daska, District Sialkot on October 28, 2017.

Torture

Mr. Riasat Ali was picked up by CTD personnel, taken to theirhide-out and tortured to obtain information on community affairs in August 2017.

Blasphemy laws

• Mr. Liaquat Ali Ranjha, Additional Session Judge, Jhelum sentenced Mr. Qamar Ahmad Tahir to imprisonment for life for allegedly defiling the Holy Quran, on July 1, 2017.
• Mr. Faheem Ahmad, an Ahmadi of Ganga Pur, District Faisalabad narrowly escaped being charged under blasphemy law in May 2017.
• Mr. Mohammad Yunus, an Ahmadi ownerof a registered private school in Khushab escaped an attempt of being accused under the blasphemy law in April 2017.

Hateful propaganda

• Hateful anti-Ahmadiyya posters were put up on road-signs in Islamabad in June 2017.
• Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on unchecked all across the country.Rabwah remained vulnerable because of various conferences held in this town by anti-Ahmadi mullas, in which the participants were incited against the Ahmadiyya community.
• Islamabad sit-in in the name of End of Prophethood generated great deal of anti-Ahmadi propaganda.

Ahmadi women

• Ms. Tahira Parveen Malik was murdered on April 18, 2017 in Lahore.
• An Ahmadi lady faced harassment in a market in Lahore on April 8, 2017 for her religious identity.

Threats

Mr. Tasawwar Ahmad received threatening letter from the Khatme Nabuwwat organization in Hattar, District Hazara in November 2017.

Official encouragement to persecution of Ahmadis

• Anti-Ahmadiyya activities remained in high gear in Lahore the provincial capital this year as well. Mullas openly spread hate against Ahmadis.
• Official encouragement, facilitation, even participation remained rampant in numerous ways.

Civic discrimination

The municipal committee of Rabwah increased the local taxes by almost 100% for its residents, of whom 95% are Ahmadis.

Impartial view

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that religious freedom was under attack in Pakistan. (The daily Dawn of August 17, 2017)

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for 2016

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

• Mr. Bilal Ahmad was shot dead on January 11, 2016 in Rabwah.
• Mr.  Qamar ul Zia was murdered on March 1, 2016 in Kot Abdul Malik, Distt. Sheikhupura.
• Mr. Dawood Ahamd was shot dead on May 24, 2016 in Gulzar Hijri, Karachi.
• Dr. Hameed Ahmad was killed on June 4, 2016 in Attock.
• Dr. Ch. Abdul Khaliq was murdered on June 20, 2016 in Karachi.
• Sheikh Sajid Mahmud was shot dead on November 22, 2016 in Gulzar Hijri, Karachi.

Faith-based murder attempts and assaults

• Mr. Javed Ahmad Khokhar and Rana Iftikhar were shot at by unknown assailants on January 27, 2016.
• Mr. Muhammad Ashraf of Hafizabad was assaulted by a mulla in March 2016. He got a sore eye and his ear got hurt due to the impact of the slap.

Ahmadis arrested, and those who faced religion-based prosecution

• The Counter Terrorism Department unlawfully and wrongfully raided the Ahmadiyya central offices and a printing press and arrested four persons on December 5, 2016. Nine Ahmadis were booked in this police case.
• A special court judge in Lahore added on April 18, 2016 the staggering blasphemy clauses PPCs 295-C and 295-B to the charge sheet of Mr. Tahir Mahdi, Ahmadi printer, for no other reason than the demand of his opponent party.
• A violent anti-Ahmadiyya mob attacked the Ahmadiyya mosque in Dulmial, District Chakwal on December 12, 2016. They occupied it, set fire to its furnishings and sacred publications. It was then sealed by the authorities. The police booked 36 Ahmadis and 36 non-Ahmadis by name in the FIR and arrested four Ahmadis afterwards.
• The police in Rabwah booked 5 named Ahmadis and unabashedly another 55 as unnamed in a spurious police case and arrested all the named Ahmadis on September 22, 2016 on a mulla’s demand.
• Mr. Zeeshan Hameed, an Ahmadiyya missionary was wrongfully implicated in a police case in Kotli, AJK on a spurious charge of preaching in January 2016.
• Police registered FIR no. 125 against Mirza Ikramullah S/O Mr. Zafarullah under 14-14/15 Punjab Security Act on April 25, 2016 in PS Kala, District DG Khan. They blamed the accused that the boundary wall of the Ahmadiyya mosque did not meet the security standard and CCTV cameras were not working properly.
• Mr. Muhammad Khan Joya of Chaubara, District Layyah was wrongfully implicated under two police cases by anti-Ahmadiyya opponents who had killed his daughter-in-law Maryyam Kahtoon five years ago. He was arrested on June 26, 2016.
• Additional Session Judge upheld 3 years’ imprisonment sentence to Mr. Masud Ahmad Chandio, an Ahmadiyya missionary and awarded one-month imprisonment to Mr. Abdur Razzaq, in a case registered under the anti-Ahmadi law PPC 298-C. Both the accused were arrested and sent to Hyderabad prison on August 15, 2016.
• Mr. Habib Ahmad was wrongfully implicated in a blasphemy case under PPC 295-B in P.S. Thekriwala, District Faisalabad with FIR no. 82.
• Mr. Farhan Ahmad S/O Mr. Sultan Ahmad was wrongfully mentioned in an FIR by an anti-Ahmadiyya neigbour on October 24, 2016. Ahmads had to shift residence to remain safe from the evil doings of their opponents.

Attacks on worship and places of worship

• A violent anti-Ahmadiyya mob of more than a 1000 people attacked the Ahmadiyya mosque in Dulmial, District Chakwal on December 12, 2016. They occupied it and set fire to its furniture, mats, books etc. It was then sealed by the authorities. Ahmadis were denied their only mosque in the town. One Ahmadi and one non-Ahmadi died during the attack. The police booked 36 Ahmadis and 36 non-Ahmadis by name in the FIR and arrested four Ahmadis afterwards.
• The DCO Khushab handed over the local Ahmadiyya mosque in Chak 2/TDA in March 2016 to an anti-Ahmadiyya group. This mosque was previously sealed by the administration on October 28, 2015.
• One, Muhammad Bilal in February 2016 took photos of a 70 years old Ahmadiyya mosque in Daska and lodged an application with the SHO Daska City. He demanded demolition of the minarets of the mosque.
• The police destroyed the Kalima and other sacred writings from the Ahmadiyya mosque in Chak No. 32 South in District Sargodha on July 28, 2016.
• Ahmadis were harassed by hostile neighbours in Township, Lahore while congregating for prayers in their local prayer centre. As a result the worship centre had to be closed for a while in October, 2016.
• Ahmadis were denied the construction of their place of worship and missionary’s house in 278-HR, District Bahawalnagar in April 2016.

Miscellaneous

• The Punjab government issued fresh orders in January 2016 to ban numerous Ahmadiyya publications and almost all the periodicals – quoting the recommendations of the Ulama Board as the authority.
• A housing authority in the Punjab, once again advertized auction of ‘government land’ in Rabwah (Chenab Nagar) in March 2016 forbidding Ahmadis to bid for it or even buy the land at some future date from the successful bidder.
• Police inspector Shujaat Malhi, who was under arrest for torture to death of Mr. Abdul Qadoos (an Ahmadi) was released on bail in May 2016, at Lahore High Court’s orders.
• Two Ahmadi children, Muhammad Ibtisam of Prep class and his brother Basal Ahmad of class III were expelled from Sir Syed Public School, Attock on October 15, 2016.
• Speakers at a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Conference on April 10, 2016 in Government owned Aiwan-i-Iqbal demanded “implementation of anti-Qadyani Ordinance 1984 and taking National Action Plan (NAP) to Chenab Nagar.”
• A high level meeting was held on October 25, 2016 in the Assembly Secretariat (KPK) under the chairmanship of Mr. Asad Qaisar, the Speaker to formally include Khatme Nabuwwat (KN) in school syllabi.
• In a rally taken out by Pakistan Peoples Party in Kotli AJK, Raja Pervez Ashraf, a former prime minister indulged in hate-speech against Ahmadis on April 30, 2016. 
• The Deputy Chairman Senate urged ban on Qadianis’ activities in a Khatme-e-Nabuwwat conference held in Golra Sharif, a village on the outskirts of the capital on August 25, 2016.
• Mufti Munib-ur-Rahman Chairman of Pakistan’s official ‘Ruet-e-Hilal Committee’ made a hate-speech against Ahmadis in a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat conference in Lalian (10 kms away from Rabwah) on September 26, 2016.
• A factory owned by two Ahmadi brothers, Mr. Nasir Mahmood and Mr. Zafarullah S/O Mr. Mukhtar Ahmad Jutt was set on fire in Sheikhupura on September 12, 2016. Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on unchecked all across the country.Rabwah remained vulnerable because of various conferences held in this town by anti-Ahmadi mullas where the participants were incited against the Ahmadiyya community.
• Anti-Ahmadiyya activities remained in high gear in Lahore this year as well. Mullas openly spread hate against Ahmadis.
• The judiciary in general, played a hostile role in providing little relief to Ahmadis who faced fabricated charges based on religion. It was difficult to obtain bails.
• Incidents of religion-based severe harassment of Ahmadi businessmen were reported throughout the year from different places.

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A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for 2015

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

Mr. Nauman Najam was shot dead on March 21, 2015 in Karachi.

Mr. Ikramullah was murdered on August19, 2015 in Taunsa, Distt. D G Khan.

Faith-based murder attempts and assaults

• Mr. Saleem Rafaqat along with his two nephews, Mr. Moaaz Ahmad and Mr. Shameer Ahmad were shot at on October 11, 2015 in Karachi. Mr. Saleem Rafaqat and Mr. Shameer Ahmad got serious injuries.
• Two pillion riders opened fire on Mr. Munir Ahmad when he was returning home on November 18, 2015 in Karachi. One bullet hit Mr. Munir in his shoulder.
• A factory owned by an Ahmadi was set on fire, after looting on November 20, 2015, and the residences inside were also torched with the motive of burning Ahmadis alive inside. Ahmadis narrowly escaped loss of life.
• Other assault victims are mentioned in Chapter 4.

Ahmadis arrested, and those who faced religion-based prosecution

• Mr Abdul Shakoor was wrongfully arrested in Rabwah on December 02, 2015 by Counter Terrorism Department and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and Rs. 150,000 fine by Anti-terrorism court.
• Mr. Tahir Mehdi Imtiaz, printer of the Ahmadiyya monthly Ansarullah, was arrested on March 30, 2015 in a fabricated case registered under a blasphemy clause PPC 295-A and an anti-Ahmadi law PPC 298-C in Lahore.
• Mr. Faisal Shehzad and Mr. Saleem Ahmad were wrongfully arrested on February 09, 2015 under the anti-Ahmadi law PPC 298-C in Aalam Garh, District Gujrat.
• The high court ordered the arrest of Mr. Mansur Ahmad of Mangat Uncha, District Hafizabad on October 21, 2015 under the blasphemy clause PPC 295-B. Mr. Ahmad has suffered prosecution for 11 years.
• Mr. Mubashir Ahmad, Mr. Ghulam Ahmad and Mr. Ihsan Ahmad were wrongfully charged under PPC 295-A, 337-C and 427 with FIR no. 291 in police station Sharaqpur Sharif, District Sheikhupura on May 13, 2014. They were refused bail, and are in prison since July 18, 2014.
• Mr. Muhammad Qasim Majoka was arrested on October 22, 2015 after the court sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment under anti-Ahmadiyya law PPC 298-C in District Sargodha.
• Mr. Mansur Ahmad was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and Rs. 20,000/- fine under an anti-Ahmadiyya law 298-C in Mankeerah, District Bhakkar on May 20, 2015. 
• The police arrested Mr. Rafiq Kahlon, Mr. Abdul Rauf, Mr. Bilal Ahmad, Mr. Luqman Ajmal, Mr. Masood Ahmad and Mr. Ikram on April 20, 2015 in a spurious case under CrPC 148, 149, 324/337-H, 7-ATA and 16-MPO in Chak 109 GB, District Faisalabad.
• Mr. Mukhtar Ahmad was arrested and tortured in prison in March 2015 in Bhari Shah Rahman, Gujranwala, on false accusation.
• Mr Munawar Din of District Khushab; Mr Bashir Ahmad and Mr Tariq Ahmad of District Layya were maliciously booked in April 2015 for failure to immediately provide security to their mosques.
• Mr. Aqib Saleem was finally acquitted on August 15, 2015 after one year of detention in a false case registered under PPC 295-A, 324 and 8/11 WATA in Gujranwala.

Attacks on worship and places of worship

•  In January 2015 two attempts were made to burn an Ahmadiyya mosque in Attock.
• The land for an Ahmadiyya mosque was illegally occupied by opponents on March 14, 2015 in Qayyampur Virkan, District Gujranwala.
• On May 04, 2015 the authorities demolished parts of an Ahmadiyya mosque in Panchand, District Chakwal.
• A policeman was injured by firing when two unidentified armed men attacked an Ahmadiyya mosque on July 11, 2015 in Taunsa Sharif, District Dera Ghazi Khan.
• An Ahmadiyya mosque in Goleki, District Gujrat was awarded to opponents by a civil judge on September 17, 2015.
• The police demolished minarets of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Qutba Jora, District Kasur.
• Authorities sealed an Ahmadiyya mosque in Chak 2/TDA, District Khushab on October 28, 2015.
• An Ahmadiyya mosque in Kala Gujran, District Jhelum was attacked by a mob, its belongings burnt followed by its occupation on November 21, 2015. The authorities locked it.

Kidnappings

• Dr Muhammad Aslam was kidnapped from his clinic in Quetta on December 30, 2014 and was released a few days later.
• Mr. Abdul Aziz Bashir was kidnapped on October 05, 2015 and was tortured. However he managed to flee from the entrapment. 

Miscellaneous

• Mob destroyed an Ahmadi-owned factory and occupied an Ahmadiyya mosque in Jhelum.Loot and arson took place in police presence. All Ahmadis had to flee from their homes and hearths to save their lives.
• Government of the Punjab banned more than 90 books and publications of the Ahmadiyya community on the recommendations of Mutahiddah Ulama Board. These included the entire works of the founder of the community.
• Local councils’ elections: 33,000 Ahmadi voters in Rabwah could not vote for their councilors. Election commission took no steps to facilitate Ahmadis’ participation.
• The (PTI) speaker of KPK Assembly declared to the crowd in an anti-Ahmadiyya conference that the KPK government will soon make End of Prophethood part of school syllabus.
• Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat Peshawar issued a pamphlet which states: “It is Jihad to shoot such people (Ahmadis) in the open.” The pamphlet contained names and addresses of Ahmadi doctors in Peshawar.Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on unchecked all across the country.Rabwah remained vulnerable because of various conferences held in this town by anti-Ahmadi mullas where the participants were incited against the Ahmadiyya community.
• A shopkeeper in Lahore was arrested and an FIR was registered against him under section PPC 295-A and MPO-16 for displaying a sticker in his shop which conveyed: Qadiani (dogs) are not allowed entry here. He was later released on bail within a day by a judge due to protest of traders.
• A candidate in the local bodies’ election distributed pamphlets during his campaign with a note: “Qadianis need not bother to vote for me”.
• The only book depot in Rabwah was raided by authorities; its proprietor was arrested by anti-terrorism squad.
• Anti-Ahmadiyya activities remained in high gear in Lahore this year as well. Mullas openly spread hate against Ahmadis.
• Punjab Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution condemning former High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan’s statement criticizing anti-Ahmadi amendment to the constitution.
• The judiciary in general, played a hostile role in providing little relief to Ahmadis who faced fabricated charges based on religion. It was difficult to obtain bails.
• Incidents of religion-based severe harassment of Ahmadi businessmen were reported throughout the year from different places.
• Two Ahmadi teachers were fired from their jobs because of the pressure from anti-Ahmadiyya elements.
• Boys of a madrassa damaged gravestones by pelting stones in an Ahmadi graveyard in Rabwah on January 12, 2015.
• A mulla on state payroll, Zahid Mehmud Qasmi, stated: ‘Qadianis are a colossal mischief (fitna); the world of Islam will have to unite to crush its head.
• A researcher on the ‘Ahmadi issue’ recommended research and open discussions; “Only then we might be able to avoid the impending human disaster which is in the making,” he said in an interview.

December 31, 2015

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for 2014

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

Mr. Arsalan Sarwar was target-killed on January 14, 2014 in Rawalpindi.

Mr. Razi-ud-Din was killed on February 8, 2014 in Karachi.

      Mr. Khalil Ahmad was shot dead while in police custody on May 16, 2014 in Sheikhupura.

Dr. Mahdi Ali Qamar was assassinated on May 26, 2014 in Rabwah.

Mr. Imtiaz Ahmad was killed on July 13, 2014 in Nawabshah.

Ms. Bushra Bibi, Miss Hira Tabassum (8 years old) and Miss Kainat Tabassum (7       months old) died of asphyxiation in an arson attack on July 27, 2014 in Gujranwala.

Mr. Mubashar Ahmad Khosa was shot dead on September 22, 2014 in Mirpur Khas.

Mr. Latif Aalam Butt was murdered on October 15, 2014 in Attock.

Mr. Luqman Shahzad was gunned down on December 27, 2014 in District Gujranwala.

(Total: eleven)

Faith-based murder attempts and assaults

• Mr. Abdul Ali S/O Ch. Abdul Majid escaped death when a man entered his shop and put a dagger on his neck on January 23, 2014 in Rahim Yar Khan.
• The rioters indulged in attack, loot, arson and extermination against the Ahmadi residents of Arafat Colony in Gujranwala; the targeted 125 Ahmadi men, women and children fled to avoid harm and bloodshed.
• Other assault victims are mentioned in Chapter 4.

Ahmadis arrested, and those who faced religion-based prosecution

• Mian Muhammad Yar and Mian Waheed ul Hassan of Haveli Lakha, Okara were arrested on a bogus charge under PPC 298-C with FIR no. 224 on March 14, 2014.
• Mian Anas Ahmad was wrongfully arrested under ATA 7 with FIR no. 228 in Haveli Lakha, District Okara on March 14, 2014.
• Mr. Tahir Ahmad Khalid was arrested under PPC 295-B, 337 A1-F1 with FIR no. 68 in police station Tando Allah Yar, District Hyderabad on March 31, 2014.
• Mr. Saleem and Mr. Atiq were wrongfully charged under PPC 295-A, 324, ATA 11-W with FIR no. 553 in police station Peoples Colony, Gujranwala on July 28, 2014.
• Mr. Munir Ahmad, Mr. Faisal Ahmad and Mr. Salim Ahmad were implicated in a false police case under the anti-Ahmadi law PPC 298-C on November 27, 2014 in PS Daulat Nagar with FIR no. 358, and the police arrested them.
• Mr. Khalil Ahmad, Mr. Mubashir Ahmad, Mr. Ghulam Ahmad and Mr. Ihsan Ahmad were wrongfully charged under PPC 295-A, 337-C and 427 with FIR no. 291 in police station Sharaqpur Sharif, Distt. Sheikhupura on May 13, 2014.
• Mr. Imran Nasir, Mr. Adnan Nasir, Mr. Ahmad Tahir Mirza, Mr. Farhan Ahmad, Mr. Tahir Mahdi Imtiaz and Mr. Abdul Manan Kausar were booked under PPC 295-A, 298-C in police station Millat Town, Lahore on April 16, 2014. 
• Mr. Mubashir Ahmad, Mr. Khalid Mahmood, Mr. Javaid Ahmad were booked falsely under PPC 298-C with FIR no. 547 in police station Baghbanpura, District Gujranwala on June 1, 2014.
• Mr. Muhammad Idrees Gurgaiz, Mr. Muhammad Khan Gurgaiz, Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad Gurgaiz, Mr. Muhammad Abbas and an Ahmadiyya missionary (Malik Khalid Mahmood) were charged under the anti-Ahmadiyya law PPC 298-C with FIR no. 96 in police station Tando Bhago, Disrtict Badin on July 24, 2014.
• Two Ahmadis, Mr. Khurshid Ahmad and Mr. Bilawal Ahmad, security guards were booked in Rabwah (Chenab Nagar) by police with FIR No. 393/2014 on December 16, 2014 under PPC 341/342, 506/148 and 149.

Attacks on worship and places of worship

•  An attempt was made to set an Ahmadiyya mosque on fire on January 23, 2014 in Goth Lashari, Hyderabad.
• Policemen on February 18, 2014 demolished the minarets of Ahmadiyya mosques in Basti Baba Jhanda and Baba Rahmat, District Rahim Yar Khan on orders of the DPO.
• The police responding to the demand of mullas stopped Ahmadis from essential repair and renovation work of their mosque in Bhera, District Sargodha in February 2014.
• The authorities stopped Ahmadis from building their mosque in Narowal in June 2014.
• On May 28, a magistrate ordered sealing of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Raipur, District Sialkot on the absurd plea of ‘threat to peace’. A judge cancelled the magistrate’s orders. The police then approached the judge to revise his order in view of ‘law and order’.
• The police stopped the construction of a mosque in Masroor Abad, in D.G. Khan in June 2014 but later allowed the completion of the building only for residential purpose.
• Miscreants forced entry into an Ahmadiyya prayer center in Faisalabad on July 26, 2014. They abused the Ahmadis present and plundered the center. The police arrived and the SHO told Ahmadis not to worship there or face closure.
• Some terrorists were arrested in Lahore. They disclosed, inter alia, that Qadiani places of worship and worshippers were on their hit-list.

Burial problems

• The police desecrated Kalima on seven gravestones of Ahmadis in Chak 96 GB, District Faisalabad on March 13, 2014.
• Two-month old daughter of Mr. Zahid Ahmad died on March 17, 2014. Her burial was denied in the common cemetery in the village by the extremists.
• Mr. Majeed Ahmad was buried on May 1, 2014 in the common cemetery. His remains were disinterred later by the authorities and buried elsewhere.
• Mr. Irshad Ahmad, president of the Ahmadiyya community in Gangapur died on August 28, 2014. His burial was not allowed in the common cemetery in Kartarpur despite the wish of his non-Ahmadi relatives.
• Mirza Sadaqat Ahmad, died in Fatehpur, District Gujrat on 19 October 2014. His burial in the common cemetery was disallowed by the mullas.
• Mr. Muhammad Boota died in Rao Kay, District Narowal on November 3, 2014. He was buried in the common cemetery with the permission of village mullas. Later other mullas agitated the issue and approached the police for disinterment.

Kidnappings

• Mr. Shafiq Ahmad Khan, an office-bearer of local Ahmadiyya community was badly injured in an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap him on March 7, 2014 in Karachi.
• Mr. Naseer Ahmad of Kotri East, District Hyderabad was kidnapped by unknown men at about 8 p.m. on October 10, 2014.
• Mr. Mubarak Ahmad Bajwa was kidnapped five years ago in Distt. T.T. Singh. It is now learnt that he was slaughtered by his captors soon afterwards, for his faith.

Miscellaneous

• Three Ahmadi females including 7-month old suckling died in arson attack. Eight homes and four shops were looted and gutted by the mob in police presence in Gujranwala on July 27, 2014.
• Lahore, capital of the Punjab, remained the epicentre of persecution of Ahmadis. Religious bigots, the police, the administration, the judiciary and the politicians joined hands to make life very difficult for Ahmadis in this metropolis.
• GEO TV telecast Aamir Liaqat Hussain’s program on December 22, in which mulla Arif Owaisi called Ahmadis joint enemy of all Muslims and Pakistan. The mulla stated that Ahmadis, Jews were behind the Peshawar massacre. An Ahmadi was killed on fifth day after the telecast, in District Gujranwala.
• The Punjab Police in Lahore co-operated with mullas this year as well to deny Ahmadis their right to sacrifice cattle on Eid ul Adha.
•  Two Hundred and eighty-eight Ahmadis who had applied for asylum in Sri Lanka were forced to return to Pakistan despite UN protest; Pakistan government disowned them.
• No steps have been taken to facilitate Ahmadis’ participation in even local councils’ elections.
• The judiciary in general, played a hostile role in providing relief to Ahmadis who faced fabricated charges based on religion. It was difficult to obtain bails.
• A Sessions Court dismissed two Ahmadis’ appeal against unfair sentence of ‘two years’ imprisonment under Ahmadi-specific law.
• Several incidents of religion-based severe harassment of Ahmadi lecturers and teachers were reported throughout the year from different places.
• No arrests have been made in murder cases of three Ahmadis of one family in Karachi despite the on-going operation, although those who instigated such murders are known to the law-enforcing authorities.
• Pakistani TV channel Aaj decided to delete a brief documentary on Amendment No II from the BBC’s Urdu program Serbeen that it had contracted to broadcast.
• Ahmadi volunteer denied recruitment in Pak Army, for his faith.
  • Harrowing threat messages were delivered to many Ahmadis, mostly in Lahore.
  •  Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on unchecked all across the country.A mulla stated in the KM conference in Rabwah that: Qadiani Jamaat and its auxiliaries are the slayers of Muslims and have butchered hundreds of thousands (lakhon) Muslims in support of interests of the West.
• Khatme Nabuwwat Council issued a pamphlet cursing Mr. Abdus Sattar Edhi and wishing him a burial sans shroud, for his good wishes for ‘Qadianis’.
• Last but not least, the PML-N provincial government in the Punjab and their federal government deliberately and grossly neglected human rights and freedom of religion of Ahmadis – by commission or omission.

December 31, 2014

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for 2013

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1. Mr. Hamid Sami was target-killed on June 11, 2013 in Karachi.
   1. Mr. Jawad Kareem was killed on June 17, 2013 in Lahore.
   2. Mr. Zahoor Ahmad Kiyani was shot dead on August 21, 2013 in Karachi.
   3. Syed Tahir Ahmad was murdered on August 31, 2013 in Karachi.
   4. Malik Ejaz Ahmad was killed on September 4, 2013 in Karachi.
   5. Mr. Ijaz Ahmad Kiyani was shot dead on September 18, 2013 in Karachi.
   6. Mr. Bashir Ahmad Kiyani was murdered on November 1, 2013 in Karachi.

Faith-based murder attempts and assaults

• Mrs. Inamul Haq, an Ahmadi lady was stabbed with dagger by an unidentified man on February 5, 2013 in Badin, Sindh.
• Approximately twenty extremists attacked Malik Maqsud Ahmad at night for his belief on March 26, 2013 in Shamsabad, District Kasur. He got injured grievously and became unconscious as a result of the attack. The attackers beat up members of his family too and damaged his household belongings.
• Rana Muhammad Akmal was shot in his leg by an unidentified bearded man on March 1, 2013 in Mori Darwaza, Sialkot.
• Ch. Nadeem Ahmad was assaulted by a non-Ahmadi youth, Kashif in Sultanpura, Lahore on April 5, 2013.
• Mr. Asif Dawood Advocate was attacked by unknown assailants on April 2, 2013 at 3 p.m. in Nawab Shah, Sindh. The shots severely injured his entrails.
• Malik Muhammad Ateeq escaped a deadly attack on his life in Manzoor Colony, Karachi on April 14, 2013.
• Mr. Aqeel Ahmad was attacked by an opponent of Ahmadiyyat, Muhammad Yusuf in Qambar, District Larkana in April 2013.
• Mr. Naveed Ahmad survived a shot by unknown assailants in Jhelum on June 11, 2013.
• Dr. Qazi Munawwar Ahmad was leaving his clinic in Gawalmandi, Lahore on September 12, 2013 when a youth came running towards him, threw acid on him and ran away. Dr. Munawwar’s clothes got burnt and he had body injuries.
• Mr. Naseer Alam Shah was shot in the jaw by unknown assailants in Orangi Town, Karachi on October 23, 2013.
• Mr. Muhammad Ahmad Wajid was shot in the leg when he was riding a motor bike driven by an elder who was hurt fatally on November 1, 2013.
• Mr. Ihsan Ahmad Danish was hit in the head, resulting in injury, in Malot, Islamabad in November 2013.
• On December 8, 2013close relatives of Mrs. Ahmad, a convert, visited her in Township, Lahore, told her to recant and seek divorce from her husband. Upon her refusal they beat her.

Ahmadis arrested, and those who faced religion-based prosecution

• The Punjab Police raided a printing press Black Arrows, owned by an Ahmadi, on January 7, 2013. They arrested the owner and three other Ahmadis, and a case was registered against them under a blasphemy clause PPC 295-B, an Ahmadi specific law PPC 298-C and PPO 24/A.
•  Mulla Hasan Muawiya aka Tooti got an FIR registered against Mr. Atif Ahmad under PPC 298-B on February 2, 2013 in Police Station Samanabad, Lahore.
• Mulla Hasan Muawiya aka Tooti, accompanied by his gang chased an Ahmadi youth Khalid Ishfaq who was distributing the Ahmadiyya daily Alfazl in Ahmadi homes on April 10, 2013. The mulla snatched the Al-Fazl from him; and had a criminal case registered with the police against 4 persons from Lahore and the editor and publisher of the daily under PPCs 295-B, 298-C and ATA 11W an anti-terrorism clause. The police arrested the four Ahmadis from Lahore.
• A group of miscreants led by Mulla Hasan Muawiya, brother of a top ranking mulla, and the police raided an Ahmadiyya mosque in Gulshan-e-Ravi, detained nine, including a women and her son, and booked 8 men on charges of blasphemy and terrorism on April 28, 2013. Seven of them were arrested.
• Deputy Superintendent Police of Baghbanpura came over to the Ahmadiyya centre in Shareefpura, Lahore on August 27, 2013 and arrested three Ahmadis and sealed the prayer centre over a complaint of a few extremists.
• Mr. Esmatullah was implicated in another false police case under PPCs 298-C and 295-B in police station Old Anarkali, Lahore on February 24, 2013. 
• Homeopath Dr. Masood Ahmad, a septuagenarian was accused of quoting from the Quran when asked about Ahmadiyyat. A judge refused him release on bail, and suggested that the accused could also be charged under laws PPC 295-C and PPC 295-A; the former carries death penalty while the latter permits trial in an Anti-terrorism court. The case was registered in police staion Old Anarkali, Lahore on November 11, 2013.
• A fabricated police case was registered against Mr. Saleem Ahmad in Kunri under the anti-Ahmadi clause PPC 298-C for preaching. FIR Nr. 108 was registered against him on October 12, 2013.
• Mr. Hamid Hussain, the Additional Session Judge ordered the police to register a case against the Ahmadi editor of the oldest weeklyin Pakistan, under Ahmadi-specific clause PPC 298-C, on the complaint of a mulla Yaqub.
• Tauqir Hasan, son of mulla Amir, had a criminal case registered against 9 named and 26 unnamed persons with the Kharian police on July 30, 2013. Four of the named accused are Ahmadis, namely Messrs Laiq Ahmad, Tahir Ahmad, Amjad and Asjad.
• Mulla Noor Muhammad and his uncle tried to get a false blasphemy case registered against two Ahmadis in Peelovains, District Khushab but could not succeed. On the pressure of the mullas, the police inspector, however, registered a case under PPC 337 and 452 against Mr. Tasawwar Hayat and Mr. Azhar Mahmood for beating the mulla, on October 7, 2013.
• Mr. Muzaffar Ahmad Dogar of Peeru Chak, District Sialkot was implicated wrongfully in a police case under PPC 298-C.
• Three Ahmadi brothers, elders of the Ahmadiyya community of District Rajanputr were booked by the police on December 19, 2013 under PPC 298-C. Mr Sharif Ahmad, a septuagenarian, was arrested.

Attacks on worship and places of worship

• The Punjab Police covered the Kalima (Islamic creed) with white paint in dark hours in an Ahmadiyya mosque in Sheikhupura on June 26, 2013.
• A local cleric belonging to Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Pakistan in Sialkot demanded from the administration the removal of the minarets, verses and the Kalima at three Ahmadiyya worship places. Accordingly the administration demolished the minarets and erased Kalimaand Quranic verses from these mosques in Sialkot on September 22, 2013. 
• The administration disfigured two Ahmadiyya mosques in Hameedabad, District Bahawalpur in September 2013 on the demand of mullas.
• Construction of an Ahmadiyya mosque was stopped and a part of it was demolished by the administration on the demand of mullas in Mirpur, AJK in November 2013.
• Anti-Ahmadiyya activists came to the Ahmadiyya mosque of Orangi Town, Karachi on January 13, 2013 and wrote anti-Ahmadiyya phrases on its outer wall after they failed to force entry into the building. 
• The police did the mullas’ bid and covered with black paint the Kalima written in the courtyard and on the outer wall of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Jalya Wala, 267 JB, District Toba Tek Singh on March 9, 2013.
• The police sealed the Ahmadiyya place of worship in Pasroor, District Sialkot on May 31, 2013 until the Ahmadis got an NOC which is not required by law.
• The police forbade Ahmadis to continue building of their mosque in Chak no. 107 RB Sharqi, District Faisalabad on June 14, 2013.
• An Ahmadiyya mosque in Fatehpur, District Gujrat was sealed by authorities in July 2013.
• The police ordered Ahmadisin Chak no. 312/JB, Gojra, District Toba Tek Singh in July 2013 to cover the minarets of their mosque in response to the complaint of mullas. Ahmadis had to cover them with steel sheets.
• Authorities did not allow the Ahmadis in Rawalpindi to offer Eid prayers in their worship place, Ewan-i-Tauheed.  
• Mullas demanded from the army establishment of the Wah Cantt to demolish the niche of the Ahmadiyya mosque there and created a lot of trouble for Ahmadis who had to make structural changes to meet the unfair demands of the authorities.
• The police visited Ahmadiyya place of worship in I-9, Islamabad and ‘advised’ the worshipers to tighten the security in the face of prevailing law and order situation. Subsequently Ahmadis had to stop using the site for worship.
• The police stopped Ahmadis of Shareef Pura, Lahore on August 27, 2013 from offering prayers in their prayer centre situated in an Ahmadi’s residence.
• Worship place in Gulshane Ravi, Lahore was raided by police and sealed on April 30, 2013.  

Burial problems

• Anti-Ahmadi goons disinterred the dead body of an Ahmadi, Mr. Sanaullah, two days after his burial, in a common graveyard in Dahranwali, District Hafizabad on January 2, 2013.
• The burial of Mr. Sarwar Ahmad was denied by mullas in Peeru, District Jhang on January 11, 2013.
• The police under the pressure of mullas disinterred an Ahmadi deceased, Ms. Seema Bibi on April 19, 2013 in Chak Nr. 133-P, District Rahim Yar Khan.
• A one-and-half year old girl was refused burial in common graveyard in Kuthuwali, District Toba Tek Singh. The local clerics along with approximately fifty bullies, armed with sticks and batons, prevented the burial.
• The wife of Mr. Iqbal Ranjha was denied burial in common graveyard on December 29, 2013.

Kidnappings

• Mr. Mufad Ahmad was kidnapped from near his house in Hayat Abad, Peshawaron January 30, 2013.
• Mr. Shaukat Javed, an Ahmadi of Karachi was kidnapped in March 2013. The Rangers undertook an operation in Gadap Town, Karachi and recovered him. The kidnappers had tortured him and asked him the security details of Ahmadiyya office-bearers in Karachi.

Miscellaneous

• Lahore, the capital of the Punjab, remained the epicenter of the persecution of Ahmadis. The religious bigots, the police, the administration, the judiciary and the politicians joined hands to make life difficult for Ahmadis in this metropolis.
• General Pasha, DG ISI disclosed to the Abbotabad Commission that the police “protected those who attacked the Qadianis” in the two Ahmadiya mosques in Lahore in May 2010. “No guards were assigned to the hospital as venal political influence intervened everywhere,” he said.
• A High Court Judge approved the bails of Ahmadi accused in a case based on religion. His announcement was greeted with angry shouts and protests from the mullas and their advocates. The judge, within 2 minutes, withdrew his order.
• Freedom of press was severely curtailed for Ahmadis during the year by the administration in league with mullas. A printing press owned by an Ahmadi was sealed in Lahore; the owner was then booked in a fabricated police case. A blasphemy case was wrongfully registered against the editor and publisher of the Ahmadiyya daily, Alfazl. Another police case was registered against the Ahmadi editor of a weekly, Lahore. Printing of the weekly thereby came to a stop. 
• Thecaretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi took notice of the attack and severe persecution of a president of a local Ahmadi community in District Kasur, who was injured and evicted from his village. The CM failed to rehabilitate him.
• The judiciary in general, played a hostile role in providing relief to Ahmadis who faced fabricated charges based on religion. It was difficult to obtain bails.
• The Election Commission did not withdraw its orders to place Ahmadis on a separate list, who were thereby unable to participate in Elections 2013.
• Several incidents of religion-based harassment of Ahmadi students and teachers were reported throughout the year from different places; as a result some students had to discontinue their studies.
• A Quran teacher in a public school in District Khushab put the photograph of the founder of Ahmadiyya Jamaat on the floor and told the students to trample upon it.
• Three Ahmadis of one family were target-killed within two months in Karachi. No arrests have been made.
• The vernacular media remained very hostile to Ahmadis. It provided full support to the mullas. Special editions were published in major vernacular dailies on September 7 which is celebrated annually by the Khatme Nabuwwat mullas, as Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims on that date in 1974. The English press, however, did publish sympathetic op-eds and news which highlighted the plight of Ahmadis in the country.
• Rabwah continued to suffer from the neglect of authorities in maintenance of town’s infrastructure and even day-to-day civic services.

• Threat messages were delivered to Ahmadis all over Pakistan, mostly in Lahore.
• Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on all across the country.
• A mulla said in an open rally in District Larkana: “Ahmadis are Wajib ul Qatl. I shall bear all the expenses of any Muslim who kills them, and will ensure his release within a month.”

• Authorities continued their ban on Ahmadiyya conferences, rallies and major sports events in Rabwah. Anti-Ahmadiyya mullas were, however, permitted to hold several hateful rallies in Rabwah.
• U.S. Congressmen wrote letters to their Secretary of State Kerry expressing concern over the situation of Ahmadis and minorities in Pakistan.
• The Ahmadiyya central office wrote 475 letters to Pak authorities bringing to their notice violations of Ahmadis’ human rights, their freedom of faith, etc.
• Last but not least, the PML-N provincial government of the Punjab and their central government deliberately and grossly neglected the human rights of Ahmadis – by commission or omission.

December 31, 2013

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for 2012

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

• Mr. Abdul Qadoos died of police torture on March 30, 2012 in Rabwah
  • Mr. Ahsan Kamal target-killed on January 18, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Naeem Ahmad Gondal shot dead on July 19, 2012 in Karachi
  • Rao Abdul Ghaffar murdered on September 6, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Muhammad Nawaz was killed on September 11, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Naveed Ahmad was killed on September 14, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Muhammad Ahmad Siddiqui murdered on September 15, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Saad Farooq was killed on October 19, 2012 in Karachi
  • Raja Abdul Hamid Khan was killed on October 23, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Bashir Ahmad was killed on October 23, 2012 in Karachi
  • Chaudhry Nusrat Mahmood died on November 27, 2012 as a result of injuries of an attack on him on October 19, 2012 in Karachi
  • Mr. Tariq Ahmad murdered on May 17, 2012 in Layyah, Punjab
  • Mr. Dawood Ahmad was killed on January 23, 2012 in Bannu, KP
  • Mr. Muhammad Aamir shot dead on December 1, 2011 in Harnai, Balochistan
  • Chaudhry Muhammad Akram murdered on February 29, 2012 in Nawabshah, Sindh
  • Mr. Maqsood Ahmad shot dead on March 7, 2012 in Nawabshah, Sindh
  • Khawaja Zahur Ahmad shot dead on October 4, 2012 in Sargodha, Punjab
  • Mr. Riaz Ahmad Basra shot dead on October 18, 2012 in Ghatialian, Punjab
  • Mr. Manzoor Ahmad shot dead on November 11, 2012 in Quetta, Balochistan
  • Mr. Maqsood Ahmad shot dead on December 7, 2012 in Quetta, Balochistan

Note: Ahmadis in Karachi and Quetta were singularly targeted.

Murder attempts

• A brutal attack in broad daylight that primarily targeted the Amir Jamaat Ahmadiyya of Faisalabad resulted in grievous injuries to two Ahmadis on duty at his residence on February 20, 2012.

• Mr. Naveed Ahmad of Ghokhowal, district Faisalabad was injured, when two unknown motorcyclists fired at him in his shop on February 11, 2012. Three shots hit him on his legs causing a fracture in his right leg.
• Mr. Muneeb Ahmad survived an attack on his life on February 29, 2012 in Nawabshah while his grandfather Chaudhry Muhammad Akram was killed in that attack. 
• Mr. Mujeeb Ahmad was shot at by two unknown motor-cyclists on April 28, 2012 in Layyah. The bullet hit his left shoulder but he survived after timely medical treatment.
• Mr. Zaheer Ahmad Alvi was injured but lived after an attempt on his life on September 6, 2012 in Nawabshah.
• The opponents attacked Mr. Faizan Ahmad. They beat him up severely in September 2012 in Mirajke, District Sialkot.
• Mr. Munawwar Ahmad was attacked by unknown men on September 24, 2012. He sustained injuries.
• Mr. Farooq Kahlon and Mr. Ammad Farooq were grievously injured in an attack on them on October 19, 2012.
• A youth named Chand tried to kill Mr. Rizwan Ahmad of Baghbanpura, Lahore on June 26, 2012 on religious grounds. Mr. Rizwan luckily survived this attack.
• Mr. Muhammad Aslam Bhatti of Baldia Town, Karachi was attacked by unknown persons on June 24, 2012. He was hit with four bullets.

Ahmadis arrested, and those who faced religion-based prosecution

• Three criminal cases under the anti-Ahmadi law and other laws were registered with FIR No. 45/12, 71/12 and 72/12 in Police Station Phalia against Ahmadis in the month of February 2012. If declared guilty, the accused could be imprisoned for seven years. The two main accused were arrested; the others escaped.
• Mrs. Tahira Siddique, an elderly housewife was wrongfully accused and charged under PPC 295-B for defiling the Quran, on April 21, 2012 in Khanpur, District Rahim Yar Khan.
• The police registered a case under anti-Ahmadiyya law PPC 298-C and a religious law PPC 295-A at P.S. Civil Lines, Lahore against two Ahmadi lecturers of the Post Graduate College of Nursing on May 31, 2012.
• Mullas succeeded, with the help of police, to implicate 12 Ahmadis of Ghatialian, District Sialkot on July 3, 2012 in a criminal case under Ahmadi-specific law PPC 298-B. Ten accused were arrested.
• Chaudhary Mansur Ahmad president of the Ahmadi community Chak 70 ML, District Bhakar was booked under Ahmadi-specific law PPC 298-C on July 4, 2012 with FIR No 9/12 registered at Police Station Mankera, on fabricated charge of proselytizing.
• The police booked and arrested Mr. Noman Ahmad, Ahmadi, unjustly on demand of a mulla, in a fabricated case in August 2012 in Khoski, District Badin.
• The police registered a case under the pressure of mullas against six Ahmadis under PPC 298-C with FIR No. 74 in Police Station Baddo Malhi on June 29, 2012, for preaching, allegedly undertaken approximately 10 weeks earlier.
• Mr. Asif Javed S/O Mr. Ghulam Hussain was arrested by the police on November 14, 2012 under PPC 506 for making a video of the court proceedings.
• The police charged three Ahamdis on the application of a mulla, under PPC 506/II with FIR no. 374 in police station Kasoki on September 29, 2012.
• The police arrested Mr. Muhammad Ashraf, president of the Ahmadiyya community Sillanwali, District Sargodha under PPC 298-C, law specific to Ahmadis on July 23, 2012.
• The police registered the case under PPC 298, 506 and 34 with FIR no. 231 in Police Staion Qila Kallarwala, District Sialkot against four Ahmadis on August 20, 2012.
• A police case was registered against Mr. Abid Ali Khan of Chak no. 27/2-L in Police Station Depalpur, District Okara under PPC 298-C on November 18, 2011.
• A false police case was registered against four members of an Ahmadi family in Lahore under 506/II with FIR no. 1325 on September 7, 2012.
• Mr. Nasim Chughtai, president of the local Ahmadiyya community Daruz Zikr, Lahore was accused of wearing a ring with a Quranic verse inscribed on it. He was arrested on October 18, 2012 under PPC 295-A.
• Mr. Amjab Salooni was subjected to torture and later a police case was registered against him under PPC 298-C with FIR no. 684 in police station Faisal Town, Lahore.
• The police registered a case against Mr. Pervez Ahmad and two others under PPC 506 and 34 at the complaint of a mulla on July 4, 2012 in Ghatialian, Distt. Sialkot.
• A mulla implicated three Ahmadis in a false case and got a case registered in Police Station Waneka Tarar with FIR no. 46 under 297, 506-A, 337, 148 and 149.

Attacks on worship and places of worship

• The Punjab Police demolished the minarets of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Kharian and removed the Kalima (Islamic creed) in dark hours on July 10, 2012.
• The police, under the pressure of the mullas, came over to the main Ahmadiyya mosque in Garhi Shahu, Lahore on May 17, 2012. They nailed a steel sheet over the Kalima and painted it black. 
• The police came to the Ahmadiyya mosque in Sultanpura, Lahore and broke the tiles on which the Kalima was written and demolished the minarets on May 2, 2012.

• The police covered the Islamic creed (Kalima) with black steel plates in the Ahmadiyya mosque in Mughalpura, Lahore on September 23, 2012.
• The authorities deprived Ahmadis in Rawalpindi their basic right of worship in congregation in their prayer centre in Satellite Town. The imposed restriction continues. 
• The police removed the Kalima from the Ahmadiyya mosque Mitha Tiwana, District Khushab on September 16, 2012 and took away the plate with them. 
• The police barred Ahmadis in Lahore and Sargodha from offering animal sacrifices on the Eid-ul-Adha festival. 

Attacks on graveyards

• Approximately 120 tombstones were vandalized by 10 to 15 armed men wearing masks at about 2:30 a.m. on December 2, 2012 in the Ahmadiyya graveyard in Model Town, Lahore. The police were reluctant to register the immense sacrilege.
• The police under the pressure of banned religious organizations removed Quranic verses and religious texts written on tombstones of Ahamdi graves in Mangat Uncha, District Hafizabad on August 17, 2012.
• The police demolished 23 gravestones and took away the pieces with them on September 4, 2012 in Jaranwala, District Faisalabad.
• Unknown men erased Islamic inscriptions from the gravestones in the Ahmadiyya cemetery in Chak Chatha, District Hafizabad on October 19, 2012 during the night.
• The mullas desecrated graves of Ahmadis in Mirpur, Sindh on April 6, 2012 in the presence of the police.

Kidnapping of Ahmadis

• Mr. Qaiser Ahmad S/O Mr. Shahbaz Ahmad was kidnapped on March 18, 2012 from Kotri, district Hyderabad. He was released on payment of ransom.
• Mr. Ali Mahar S/O Raja Mahar Ahmad was kidnapped on March 13, 2012 from Johar Town, Lahore. They released him on receipt of ransom.
• Mr. Latif Ahmad Sabir Nasri went missing from Karachi on October 1, 2012 and has not been traced to-date.
• Sahibzada Naveedur Rahman S/O Mr. Hameedur Rahman, of Bazidkhel, Peshawar went missing on January 10, 2012. He returned eventually.
• An unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Professor Tariq Chaudhri of Kotli, Azad Kashmir was made on December 23, 2011.

Miscellaneous

• The authorities issued orders to ban Ahmadi women’s monthly Misbah, and initiated similar action against the daily Al-Fazl.
• The Election Commission has not withdrawn its orders to place Ahmadis on a separate list;they are thereby not in a position to participate in the forthcoming elections.
• Several incidents of religion-based harassment of Ahmadi students were reported throughout the year from different places; as a result some students had to discontinue their studies.
• The vernacular media remained very hostile to Ahmadis; it provided full support to the mullas.
• Rabwah continued to suffer from the neglect of authorities in maintenance of its infrastructure and even day to day civic facilities.

• Threats were delivered to Ahmadis all over Pakistan, mostly in Lahore.
• Extensive hate campaign against Ahmadis went on all across the country.
• Authorities continued their ban on Ahmadiyya conferences, rallies and major sports events in Rabwah. Anti-Ahmadiyya mullas were, however, permitted to hold several provocative rallies in Rabwah.
• Last but not least, the PML-N provincial government of the Punjab deliberately and grossly neglected the human rights of Ahmadis, by commission or omission.

December 31, 2012

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2011

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1. Rana Zafrullah was killed on March 18, 2011 in Sanghar, Sindh.
   1. Malik Mabroor Ahmad was murdered on July 11, 2011 in Nawabshah, Sindh.
   2. Mr Naseem Ahmad Butt was shot dead on September 4, 2011 in Faisalabad.
   3. Mr. Dilawar Hussain was killed on October 1, 2011 in Farooqabad, district Sheikhupura.
   4. Ms. Maryam Khatoon was killed on December 6, 2011 in Chobara, District Layyah.

Murder attempts

• Unknown pillion-riders fired pistol shots at Mr. Basheer Ahmad the secretary of public affairs of the local Ahmadi community in Rachna Town, Lahore on September 7, 2011. He was hit by four bullets in the neck, shoulder and stomach. He survived after a major surgery.
• Mr. Wajih Ahmad Noman was injured in shoulder by a bullet when he was returning home at about 8 p.m. on January 6, 2011 in Mardan, KP.
• Mr. Masood Ahmad was shot in the leg in Hyderabad, Sindh on January 27, 2011.
• Mr. Langa was attacked by a mulla, in Rabwah on March 12, 2011 with an axe, injuring him severely in the head.
• Mr. Waqas Ahmad was overtaken by a few miscreants in Chak No. 11/FW, district Bahawal Nagar on June 6, 2011 and beat him badly. The assault resulted in fracture of his arm.
• Mr Imtiaz Ahmad of Amir Park, Gujranwala city was shot at by two unknown persons on July 16, 2011. He had received threats before this attack.
• Two persons on a motor-cycle approached Dr Rafiq Ahmad and his brother, Ataul Khabir and fired a burst at them on June 15, 2011 in Mardan. Fortunately, both escaped unhurt.

Ahmadis convicted, and those who were made to face religion-based charges

• A court sentenced two Ahmadis for offering funeral prayers in accordance with Islamic practice, to one year imprisonment. The verdict was announced by the Civil Judge Phalia on July 21, 2011.
  • A school boy was booked under fabricated charge of blasphemy; he went into hiding in fear of his life. His father was booked under the Ahmadi-specific law, PPC 298-C in December 2011 in Khushab, Punjab.
  • An Ahmadi headmaster was booked for defiling the Quranon December 12, 2011 in Kunjah, district Gujrat, although 30 teachers testified that he committed no such wrong.
  • An Ahmadi school teacher was arrested on November 20, 2011in a murder case simply to placate mullas.
  • In all, thirty-six Ahmadis faced spurious faith-based charges this year.

Kidnapping of Ahmadis

• Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad S/O Mr. Akbar Shah was kidnapped by unknown men on October 17, 2011in Peshawar.
• Dr. Shah Muhammad, an ex-president of Ahmadiyya community Kotli, AJK and his son Mr. Fahad Javed were kidnapped on October 29, 2011.
• Afaq Ahmad Malik S/O Malik Rasheed Ahmad, a school-boy was kidnapped on February 10, 2011 in Khokhar Gharbi, district Gujrat but the attempt aborted due to an accident to the vehicle used.
• Dr. Naseem Ahmad and his wife escaped an attempt to abduct them on September 27, 2011 in Wapda Colony, Peshawar.

Miscellaneous

• Seven Ahmadi girls and boys were expelled from various schools in Pachnand, District Chakwal just for their faith in August 2011.
• Ten Ahmadi students and a teacher were expelled from schools in district Hafizabad, Punjab in September, 2011 for their faith.
• Election Commission of Pakistan started the process of registration of voters for the next elections. It instructed its staff to make separate lists only for Ahmadis, despite the policy of Joint Electorate.
• A vicious anti-Ahmadyya hate campaign went on throughout the country during the year. Ahmadis were repeatedly called Wajib ul qatl (must be killed as a religious duty). Their address lists were published in Faisalabad, Sargodha and District Chakwal. The authorities took little action against promoters of massacre.
• The police demolished an Ahmadiyya mosque which was under construction in Jattwala, district Lodhran in August, 2011 on mullas’ demand.
• Numerous graves in Ahmadiyya graveyard were desecrated in Dunyapur, district Lodhran in December 2011.
• Address lists of Ahmadis were published and distributed in Faisalabad, Sargodha and Pachnand, district Chakwal, after declaring them Wajib-ul-Qatl (must be killed). 
• Syed Muzaffar Shah and Syed Mubashir Shah, two Ahmadi brothers of Faisalabad received threatening letters from the Amir of Aalami Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat, Faisalabad on March 24, 2011.
• Threats were delivered to Ahmadis all over Pakistan. Reports were received from district Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad,Toba Tek Singh, Attock, Okara, Mardan, Peshawar, Gujranwala, Rahim Yar Khan, Hyderabad and Chiniot.
• Widespread hateful propaganda against Ahmadis has been reported from across the country. Special reports were received from district Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Islamabad, Kotli, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Narowal, Quetta, Hafizabad, Gujrat, Umarkot and Chiniot.
• Authorities continued their ban on Ahmadiyya conferences, rallies and major sports events in Rabwah. Anti-Ahmadiyya mullas were, however, permitted to hold several provocative rallies in Rabwah.

December 31, 2011

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2010

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1                Professor Muhammad Yusuf was killed on January 5, 2010 in Lahore.

2                Mr. Sami Ullah was shot dead on February 3, 2010 in Shehdadpur, district Sanghar,                          Sindh. 

3,4,5          Mr. Ashraf Pervez, Mr. Masood Javed, and Mr. Asif Masood were killed on April 1, 2010 in Faisalabad, Punjab.

6                Mr. Hafeez Ahmad Shakir was murdered on May 19, 2010 in Karachi.

7 – 92         86 Ahmadis were killed on May 28, 2010 in Lahore in terrorist attacks.

93              Mr. Nematullah was killed on May 31, 2010 in Mandi Ahmad Abad, district Narowal, Punjab.

94              Dr Najmul Hasan was murdered on August 17, 2010 in Karachi.

95              Pir Habib ur Rehman on August 19, 2010 in Sanghar, Sindh.

96              Sheikh Amir Raza, was killed on September 3, 2010 in Mardan, KP. 

97              Mr. Naseer Ahmad Butt was killed on September 8, 2010 in Faisalabad, Punjab.

98              Sheikh Mahmud Ahmad was shot dead on November 8, 2010 in Mardan, KP.

99              Sheikh Umar Javed killed in Mardan on December 23, 2010.

Ahmadis behind bars on 31 December 2010

1. Three Ahmadis; Mr. Basharat, Mr. Nasir Ahmad and Mr. Muhammad Idrees of Chak Sikandar were arrested in September 2003 on a false charge of murdering a cleric. The police, after due investigation found no evidence against the accused. Based on the evidence of false witnesses they were sentenced to death. They are now in the eighth year of their incarceration. Their appeal lies with Lahore High Court.  
2. Four Ahmadis have been wrongfully charged for murder in district Faisalabad. A passerby was killed during an exchange of fire between Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis. The fire-fight broke out because Ahmadis had to defend themselves against perpetual harassment and aggression. The police could not specify whose bullet caused the casualty; however, they arrested four Ahmadis, nevertheless.

Ahmadis convicted, and those who were made to face religion-based charges

• Three Ahmadis were wrongfully booked under the dreaded blasphemy laws.
• Sixty-seven Ahmadis were charged in religion-based cases.
• Seven Ahmadis of Goi, AJK were arrested in a case under PPC 295-A, 341/324, 147/148, 149/337A, 296 with FIR No. 79 in February 2010.
• The Civil Judge Mirpur sentenced three Ahmadis, Mr. Masood Ahmad Chandio, Mr. Abdul Razzaq and Mr. Abdul Ghani to three years of imprisonment in March 2010 under Ahmadi-specific law.
• Three Ahmadis, Mr. Muhammad Qasim, Mr. Mazahir Ahmad and Mr. Ahmad Yar were arrested under PPC 298-C and 295-C on false accusation of preaching and blasphemy in Haveli Majoka, district Sargodha in October 2010.
• Mr. Ijaz Ahmad, Mr. Yasin and Mr. Latif were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined five thousand rupees each under the Ahmadi-specific law PPC 298-C, on January 28, 2010 by a magistrate Hidayat Ullah Shah at Vehari, Punjab.
• The Additional Session Judge of Mirpur Khas, Zareena Abbasi, sentenced Mr. Tahir Ahmad to three years in prison on July 10, 2010, for wearing a T-shirt on which the Kalima (Islamic creed) was written

Murder attempts

• 124 Ahmadis injured in attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques in Lahore on May 28, 2010.
• Three injured in a suicide attack on an Ahmadiyya mosque in Mardan.
• Mr. Waleed Ahmad, a student of engineering at COMSATS Islamabad escaped an attempt on his life in the university premises.
• Mr. Iqbal Nasir faced an attempt on his life by two motorcyclists on April 14, 2010.
• Rana Manzoor Ahmad s/o Mr. Muhammad Tufail escaped an attempt on his life by two armed men on October 12, 2010.
• Mr. Nasir Ahmad Wahla escaped an attempt on his life on August 16, 2010.
• Mr. Mansoor was grievously injured, while his father died in the attack on May 31, 2010.
• Mr. Arif Mahmud was grievously injured in the fatal attack on his father on November 8, 2010.

Abduction of Ahmadis

• Mr. Iftikhar-ul-Haq, Advocate, a prominent Ahmadi of Quetta was kidnapped on March 19, 2010.
• Bilal Ahmad and Sheraz Ahmad two Ahmadi children of Madina Town, Faisalabad were kidnapped for ransom on March 9, 2010.
• Dr. Bashir Ahmad was kidnapped on October 8, 2010 in Pabbi, Peshawar.

Miscellaneous

• An Ahmadiyya mosque in Ahmad Nagar (near Rabwah) was handed over to non-Ahmadis on January 14, 2010 by the orders of the District Co-ordination Officer Chiniot, Punjab.
• Ahmadis were denied shelter by the authorities in flood-affected areas in southern Punjab.
• All boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Punjab revised the admission forms for 9^th and 10^th class examination. This electronic form on the internet has only two options, Muslim or Non-Muslim. Ahmadi students can not tick either. This is a vicious dilemma.
• Police erased the Kalima from an Ahmadiyya mosque in Chak Mangla, district Sargodha, on July 17, 2010.
• Police effaced the Kalima from another Ahmadiyya mosque in Dheroke, district Toba Tek Singh, Punjab on October 10, 2010.
• Mr. Yasir Ayaz was denied admission in M.Sc. (Zoology) class by government officials in Government College of Science, Wahadat Road, Lahore only for his faith.
• Ahmadis denied rebuilding of their mosque in Kalowal, district Chiniot on March 25, 2010.
• Noman Ahmad Cheema, a boy under 12, faced severe hostility and persecution in Government High School Ahmad Nagar, District Chiniot. He had to leave his school.
• Rana Khalil Ahmad and Mr. Rashid Iqbal who are accused of alleged blasphemy, escaped an attack while in police custody in court premises on August 13, 2010 in Mirpur Khas, Sindh.
• Mr. Raees Ahmad Butt along with his son, Mr. Nasir Ahmad Butt were beaten up on August 5, 2010 in Larkana, Sindh.
• Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad was beaten up by anti-Ahmadi agitators on May 21, 2010 in Kharian, Punjab.
• A terrorist attempted a suicide attack on an Ahmadiyya mosque in Shalamar Town, Lahore on July 15, 2010, but could not succeed and ran away.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2009

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1 –              Mr. Saeed Ahmad was killed in Kotri on Jan 19, 09.

2 –              Mr. Mubashir Ahmad was shot dead on Feb 20, 09 in Karachi.

3,4 –           Mr. Shiraz Bajwa and his wife Noreen Bajwa both doctors were brutally murdered                            on Mar 14, 09 in Multan.

5 –              Mian Laiq Ahmad was killed in Faisalabad on May 29, 09.

6,7 –           Two Ahmadis, Mr. Khalid Rasheed and Mr. Zafar Iqbal were shot dead on Jun 24, 09                        in Quetta.

8 –              Rana Ata-ul-Karim was murdered on Jul 06, 09 in Multan.

9 –              Mr. M. Ahmad Farooqi was shot dead on Sep 26, 09 in Uch Sharif,Bahawalpur.

10 –            Zulfiquar Mansur was murdered brutally on Sep 11, 09. He had been abducted a month                     earlier.

11 –            Rana Saleem Ahmad, the Deputy Amir of Jamaat Ahmadiyya Sanghar was shot dead on                    Nov 26, 09.

Ahmadis behind bars

• Mr. Muhammad Iqbal was imprisoned for life in a fabricated case of blasphemy. He was arrested in March 2004, and is currently incarcerated in the Central Jail, Faisalabad. An appeal has been filed with the Lahore High Court against the decision of the Sessions Court. It is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 89/2005. He is now in the sixth year of his imprisonment.
• Three Ahmadis; Mr. Basharat, Mr. Nasir Ahmad and Mr. Muhammad Idrees along with 7 others of Chak Sikandar were arrested in September 2003 on a false charge of murdering a cleric. The police, after due investigation found no evidence against the accused. Yet they faced a ‘complaint trial’ for a crime they did not commit. Based on the unreliable testimony of the two alleged ‘eye-witnesses’ (who were discredited in court), seven of the accused were acquitted, but on the same evidence these three innocent Ahmadis were sentenced to death. They are being held on death row at a prison in Jehlum, while their appeal lies with the Lahore High Court. They are now in the seventh year of their incarceration. Their appeal to the Lahore High Court is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 616/2005 dated 26 April 2005.
• Dr. Muhammad Asghar was arrested on a fabricated charge of blasphemy in June 2008. The judge rejected his plea for bail. The police investigation found him innocent. Subsequently his plea for bail was rejected by the High Court – and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has directed his expeditious trial which is now in progress. It is learnt that his plea for bail has now been accepted by the Supreme court, but he was still in prison on December 31.

Ahmadis who were made to face charges

• Thirty-seven Ahmadis were wrongfully booked under the dreaded blasphemy laws.
• Fifty-seven Ahmadis were charged under Ahmadi-specific laws.
• Ms. Bushra Naheed, an Ahmadi school teacher was falsely charged under PPC 295-A, triable in Anti-terrorism court. She is accused only of speaking harshly to a woman worker.
• An Ahmadiyya mosque was desecrated in Lathianwala; Kalima (Islamic Creed) and Islamic terminology written on the walls of the mosque as well as Ahmadis’ houses was covered with cement and paint by the police. A case was registered against 32 Ahmadis under 295-A, 295-C and 298-C, etc.

Murder Attempts

• A murder attempt was made on Mr. Muhammad Iqbal Abid, an Ahmadi religious teacher on February 25, 2009 at Vehari.
• An Ahmadi college lecturer, Mr. Mubashir Ahmad Tahir escaped death from murderers in     Chakwal. He received serious injuries when they tried to behead him.
• An Ahmadi lawyer Mr. Riasat Ali Bajwa was attacked on May 4, 2009.
• Another Ahmadi Mr. Javed Ahmad escaped a murder attempt on August 12, 2009 in Kunri.
• Mr. Luqman Ahmad Gondal s/o Mr. Nasir Ahmad Gondal (president of the local Ahmadiyya community) closely escaped an attempt on his life on September 12, 2009.
• Mr. Muhammad Ayaz, 20-years old son of a former president of the district Ahmadiyya         community became the target of an attack on his life on February 7, 2009.
• Dr Pervaiz Zareef of Bhati Gate, Lahore closely escaped an attempt on his life on November 25,        2009.

Abduction of Ahmadis

• Qamar Ahmad, an Ahmadi was abducted by two men in the vicinity of his home at about 21:30         on March 16, 2009. He was left unconscious on roadside.
• Mr. Bashir Ahmad Advocate, President of the local Ahmadiyya community, Achini Payan, near         Peshawar was abducted on April 1, 2009. He has not been recovered yet.
• Mr. Rashid Karim, a well-known Ahmadi in Faisalabad, was abducted on May 9, 2009. He was         released 5 months later after payment of heavy ransom.
• Mr. Zulfiquar Mansur was abducted at Quetta in September 2009. A month later his dead body          was recovered from roadside in city’s suburbs.

Miscellaneous

• Four school-going children of 9^th and 10^th grade were falsely charged under PPC 295-C in Layyah; they remained incarcerated for about 6 months.
• An Ahmadiyya mosque was attacked with a grenade in Sialkot.
• A gang of religious extremists, comprising approximately 50 men attacked an Ahmadiyya mosque in the village of Kalaswala on October 27 and destroyed it.
• All Ahmadi teachers were fired from Qurban High School in Lahore under the pressure of mullas.
• Four rockets were launched against an Ahmadi-owned industrial plant in Feb 09.
• Anti-Ahmadiyya Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Conference was held in the Royal Mosque, Lahore under the auspices of the provincial government in April 2009.
• An Ahmadiyya graveyard was attacked and desecrated by rioters in Pir Mahal, Toba Tek Singh in June 09. Thereafter the authorities cancelled the land allotment order issued by them to Ahmadis 20 years ago.
• Two Ahmadis were assaulted for their faith on August 7, 2009 in Nankana.
•  A Khatme Nabuwwat Conference was held in Rabwah by rabid mullas on 15, 16 October 2009. It is worth noting that Ahmadis, who are 95% of the Rabwah population, are not allowed   to hold their gatherings and sports competitions in this town, while the authorities allow outsider     mullas to hold conferences here, in which they use highly provocative language to injure the feelings of Ahmadi residents of Rabwah.
• SHO Police Station Chiniot City, ordered Ahmadis of Kot Muhammad Yar to stop their weekly Friday worship.
• Ahmadis of Tatle Aali, District Gujranwala were forbidden by the local police to congregate for prayers.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2008

MORE Ahmadis were murdered this year for their faith, and more faced persecution under the Ahmadi-specific laws as compared to the last year. After 19 years, this year again the entire Ahmadi population of Rabwah was booked by the police. Rules were devised to bar Ahmadis’ participation in National Assembly elections. Consequently, Ahmadis have no representation in the Parliament. All the Ahmadi students of the Punjab Medical College were rusticated and they suffered tremendous harassment and interruption in their education for months, before they were rehabilitated. This year proved among the worst in violation of human rights of Ahmadis in the past quarter of a century. Its toughest months were those when a democratic government was in place, not the military. This is rather a sad comment on the performance of a democratic regime.

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1. Mr. Basharat Ahmad Mughal was murdered at Karachi on February 24, 2008.
2. Dr Sarwar of Peshawar was killed on March 19, 2008.
3. Dr Abdul Mannan Siddiqui was shot dead in Mirpur Khas on September 8, 2008.
4. Seth Muhammad Yusuf was assassinated on September 9, 2008 in Nawab Shah.
5. Sheikh Saeed Ahmad of Manzoor Colony, Karachi was attacked on September 1, 2008. He died 12 days later, on September 13, 2008.
6. Pillion riders murdered Muhammad Ghazanfar Chattha on November 18, 2008.

Ahmadis still in prison at the end of the year

1. Mr. Muhammad Iqbal was imprisoned for life in a fabricated case of blasphemy. He was arrested in March 2004, and is now incarcerated in the Central Jail, Faisalabad. An appeal lies with the Lahore High Court against the decision of the Sessions Court. It is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 89/2005. He is now in the fifth year of his imprisonment.
2. Three Ahmadis namely Messrs. Basharat, Nasir Ahmad and Muhammad Idrees along with 7 others of Chak Sikandar were arrested in September 2003 on a false charge of murdering a cleric, as alleged by the opponents of the Jamaat. The police, after due investigation found no evidence against the accused. Yet these men still faced a ‘complaint trial’ for a crime they did not commit. Based on the unreliable testimony of two alleged ‘eye-witnesses’ (who were proven false in the court), the court acquitted seven of the accused, but on the evidence of the same two liars, it sentenced these three innocent Ahmadis to death. They are being held on death row at a prison in Jehlum, while their appeal lies with the Lahore High Court. They are now in the sixth year of their incarceration. Their appeal to the Lahore High Court is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 616/2005 dated 26 April 2005.
3. Dr. Muhammad Asghar was arrested on a fabricated charge of blasphemy. The judge rejected his plea for bail. The police investigation found him innocent.
4. Rana Khalil Ahmad, an elderly and disabled gentleman, is detained for allegedly writing a letter to a cleric.
5. Mr. Rashid Iqbal is incarcerated on a false charge of Blasphemy for writing something on road with a chalk.

Ahmadis who were made to face charges

• Thirty Ahmadis were wrongfully booked under the dreaded blasphemy laws.
• Seventy-six Ahmadis were charged under Ahmadi-specific laws.
• Two Ahmadies were booked for murder on complaint of clerics. The police found them innocent and released them.
• The entire population of Rabwah was booked for celebrating the Khalifat centenary.
• All Ahmadis of Kotli, Azad Kashmir were booked for undertaking repairs and improvements in their mosque.

Miscellaneous

• Ahmadis were denied the right to vote in the National Assembly elections, by devious rules.
• All Ahmadi students of Punjab Medical College Faisalabad were rusticated including 15 female students.
• The administration and police of Kotli, Azad Kashmir, destroyed an Ahmadiyya mosque under construction, and forbade the building process of another.
• The entire Ahmadi population of Rabwah was booked by the police under law specific to Ahmadis.
• Ahmadi businessmen of Rabwah were charged and arrested for writing the words Imam and Khilafat in Ramadan calendars distributed free for social service and publicity.
• Geo television aired a program ‘Aalam online’ in which, ‘Jihad, blood and duty to kill’ were mentioned in the Ahmadiyya context.
• The administration forbade the town of Rabwah to host Junior National Championship of Basketball. Teams that had arrived returned without playing.
• A magistrate sealed an Ahmadiyya mosque by order.
• The authorities responding to protest of clerics forbade Ahmadis to celebrate their Khilafat anniversary on May 27, 2008.
• The police failed to register an FIR concerning rioters who damaged and stole Ahmadis’ property at Kotri.
• A deputy commissioner in Azad Kashmir refused to entertain an Ahmadi’s tender for supply of medicines and rations to a hospital, for reason of his faith. The decision was conveyed in writing.
• An Ahmadi community president and a religious teacher were arrested in Rawalpindi for using a house as prayer-center.
• Those who murdered 8 Ahmadis in Mong and injured 20 others in 2005, while they offered their prayers, were declared Not Guilty by a Special Court, although the police and investigating agencies were sure that the accused had committed the massacre. 

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2007

More Ahmadis were murdered this year for their faith and more faced prosecution on religion-based charges than last year. Special steps were taken by the Election Commission of Pakistan to exclude Ahmadis from the Joint Electorate system and voters’ Form 2 was redesigned to impose Non-Muslim identity on Ahmadis, thus closing the door of their participation in Elections 2008. The administration and the police continued to behave as if to deny human rights to Ahmadis. Federal Ministry of Interior, however, seemed to take some notice of Ahmadiyya grievances and problems; however concrete results of its intervention have still to be visible.

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1	Mr. Muhammad Ashraf was killed by an ex police inspector at Seerah, Mandi Bahauddin on March 1, 2007.

2	Chaudhary Habibullah Sial was found murdered at his home on the morning of April 8, 2007 at Adda Nur Pur Nehr, District Qasur.

3	Dr. Hameedullah of Steel Town, Karachi was abducted and killed sometimes between 20-22 September 2007.

4	Professor Dr Mobashir Ahmad of Clifton, Karachi was shot dead on September 26, 2007 outside his clinic.

5	Mr. Humayun Waqar was assassinated in his shop at Sheikhupura on December 7, 2007.

Ahmadis in prison on December 31, 2007

1

Mr. Muhammad Iqbal was imprisoned for life in a fabricated case of blasphemy. He was arrested in March 2004, and is now incarcerated in the Central Jail, Faisalabad. An appeal lies with the Lahore High Court against the decision of the Sessions Court. It is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 2. He is now in the fourth year of his imprisonment.

2

Three Ahmadis namely Messrs. Basharat, Nasir Ahmad and Muhammad Idrees along with 7 others of Chak Sikandar were arrested in September 2003 on a false charge of the murder of a cleric, as alleged by opponents of the Jamaat. The police, after due investigation found no evidence against the accused. Yet these men still faced a ‘complaint trial’ for a crime they did not commit. Based on the unreliable testimony of the two alleged eye-witnesses (who were proven false in the court) the court acquitted seven of the accused, but on the evidence of the same two liars the court sentenced these three innocent Ahmadis to death. They are being held in a death cell at a prison in Jhelum, while their appeal lies with the Lahore High Court. These innocent are now in the fifth year of their incarceration. Their appeal to the Lahore High Court is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 616/2005 dated 26 April 2005.

3	Four Ahmadis are in prison at Qambar, Sindh after their arrest in a fabricated case under religious law 298, later upgraded to PPC 298-C and 295-C. They are Messrs Mukhtar A Chandio, Aquil Ahmad, Javed Ahmad and Nadir Hussain.

Ahmadis who were made to face charges

Twenty-two Ahmadi were wrongfully booked under the dreaded Blasphemy law.

Twenty-four Ahmadis were charged under Ahmadi-specific laws.

Thirty-six Ahmadis were booked under common laws but in religion-based incidents and under faith-related considerations.

An Ahmadi dead was deliberately charged under a religion-based law that prescribes 10 years’ imprisonment.

Two Ahmadis children aged 8 and 11 were booked for being on the mailing list of an Ahmadiyya children’s magazine.

Miscellaneous

	Rules and procedures were formulated so that Ahmadis would disassociate themselves from participation in Elections 2008.
	Ahmadis were not permitted to hold their traditional annual conference at Rabwah. However, Ahmadis’ opponents were permitted and facilitated to hold three major conferences during the year, at Rabwah.
	MMA, the political alliance of mullas, moved an Apostasy Bill in the National Assembly whereby an apostate from Islam would be given death sentence. The bill was worded to specifically target Ahmadis.
	The administration and the police proceeded to defile an Ahmadiyya graveyard to placate a few mullas.
	Rabwah the Ahmadiyya headquarters town, continued to suffer from official neglect and maladministration. Essential services like water, electricity, telephones, security, roads, education etc remained highly problematic, causing suffering to the residents.
	Ahmadiyya schools and colleges were not denationalized despite government policy to that end.

In short, more things change, more they remain the same — at least for Ahmadis in Pakistan, for the present.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2006

Ahmadiyya Community was targeted by the state and the mullah this year also as in the past. No relief whatsoever was provided, despite rhetoric in support of ‘enlightened moderation’. The authorities took initiative to press charges against Ahmadi individuals and the Ahmadiyya press, on baseless accusations. A riot at Jhando Sahi, in police presence, made the entire local Ahmadi community flee from their homes and hearths.

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1. Sheikh Rafiq Ahmad, in Manzoor Colony, Karachi on March 11, 2006
2. Dr Mujib ur Rahman Pasha, at his clinic in Sanghar, on May 7, 2006
3. Mr. Munawwar Ahmad, at his home in Gujrat, on August 22, 2006

In addition, murder attempts were made on Ahmadi individuals at Rahim Yar Khan, Mirpur of Azad Kashmir, Dera Ghazi Khan and Chawinda (district Sialkot) on March 16, August 01, September 29 and October 16 respectively.

Ahmadis in prison on December 31, 2006

1. Mr. Muhammad Iqbal was awarded life imprisonment in a fabricated case of blasphemy. He was arrested in March 2004, and is now incarcerated in the Central Jail, Faisalabad. An appeal lies with the Lahore High Court against the decision of the Sessions Court. It is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 89/2005 dated 15 January 2005.
2. Three Ahmadis namely Messrs. Baccarat, Nasir Ahmad and Muhammad Idrees along with 7 others of Chak Sikandar were arrested in September 2003 on false charge of murder of a mullah, at the complaint of Ahmadi-bashers. The police, after due investigation found nothing against all these accused.  Still the innocent faced a ‘complaint trial’ for a crime they did not commit.  Based on the unreliable testimony of the two alleged eye-witnesses (who were proven false in the court) the court acquitted seven of the accused, but on the evidence of the same two liars the court sentenced these above-named three innocent Ahmadis to death. They are lodged in death cell at Jhelum prison, while their plea for justice lies with the Lahore High Court. It is now over three years that they are in prison.  Their appeal to the Lahore High Court is registered as Criminal Appeal No. 616/2005 dated 26 April 2005.
3. Mr. Mansur Hussain of District Hafizabad was awarded imprisonment for life last year for allegedly burning some pages of a time-worn copy of the Holy Quran. He is in prison since December 2004. His appeal to the Lahore High Court registered as Criminal Appeal No. 1885/2005, dated 6 December 2005 is awaiting a hearing.

Ahmadis made to face charges

• 10 Ahmadis were booked on false charge of blasphemy
• 29 Ahmadis booked under Ahmadi-specific laws
• 9 Ahmadis faced charges under religious laws
• 2 Ahmadis were booked under religious consideration

Miscellaneous

• Ahmadis were deprived of participation in country’s democratic institutions by excluding them from Joint Electorate. They have no representation anywhere, not even in the local union council of their own town, Rabwah.
• Serious anti-Ahmadiyya riots occurred at Jhando Sahi, District Sialkot on June 24, 2006, in heavy police presence who gave the rioters free hand to inflict injury and indulge in arson and loot. Ahmadiyya mosque was totally destroyed. The entire community had to flee in search of safety, and could not return for weeks.
• Ahmadiyya press suffered unabashed attack by the Punjab Government. The printer and publisher were booked under Anti-terrorism Act. The printer, an old man who is not in good health remained incarcerated for months. His plea for bail was opposed by the state. He has not been told what exactly he printed that is objectionable to the authorities. The charges are thus mala fide and dishonestly applied. The same team  was charged again two months later under the same false pretext.
• Highly provocative and slanderous conferences were permitted by the authorities and held by opponents at Rabwah. The participants were transported from outside Rabwah.
• Ahmadi places of worship were defiled. Freedom of faith was blatantly restricted.
• Disinterment was enforced by authorities to placate the mullah. Attacks were carried out at Ahmadi businesses and at a graveyard. The police took no action against the perpetrators of the crime.
• Numerous Ahmadis received dangerous threats to their person and families – in writing.
• Educational institutions owned by Ahmadis have not been returned to them despite government policy of denationalization.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2005

The Year 2005 brought no long-awaited relief to Ahmadis. The higher-ups decided not to change their policy of status quo, and the persecution and tyranny that was initiated 21 years ago by General Zia remained entrenched. The present regime, despite its proclamations in favor of human rights, has done little to improve the situation for Ahmadis. In fact, there appears a tacit understanding between the ‘mullah and the military’ to maintain the heat under the Ahmadiyya issue.

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1-8.      Messers Ahmad Waheed, Raja Lerasip Khan, Raja Altaf Mahmud, Muhammad Aslam Kullah, Yasar Ahmad Kullah, Raja Muhammad Ashraf, Raja Abid Mahmud and Raja Abdul Majeed, at Mong, District Mandi Bahauddin on October 7, 2005.

9.         Mr Wasim Ahmad, at Quetta, on September 10, 2005

10.       Mr Muhammad Iqbal of Narang Mandi, District Sheikhupura, on November 6, 2005

11.       Mr Naeem Mahmud at Sialkot on December17, 2005

Ahmadis in prison on December 31, 2005 in religion based cases

• Mr Muhammad Iqbal is undergoing imprisonment for life at the Central Jail Faisalabad, convicted on false charge of blasphemy. He is in prison since March 2004.
• Messrs. Basharat, Nasir Ahmad and Muhammad Idrees of Chak Sikandar are in prison since September 2003. They have been sentenced to death on false accusation of murder of a mullah. The police found them Not Guilty. Their appeal against the Sessions Court’s decision is pending with the High Court.
• Mr. Mansur Ahmad is in prison for life for burning some pages of a time-worn copy of the Quran. He was arrested in December 2004.
• Three Ahmadis are in prison in Bahawalpur on fabricated charge of blasphemy. They were arrested in June 2005.

Ahmadis made to face charges

            60 Ahmadis were subjected to face charges in religion based cases. They face imprisonment; some of them are exposed to death penalty; while 16 have been let off the hook.

• 16 were falsely booked for blasphemy.
• 24 were booked under Ahmadi-specific laws.
• 19 were booked in religion-based circumstances.
• One is facing prosecution under laws on religion.

Miscellaneous

• The authorities and courts continued to implement Ahmadi-specific and other religious laws, and provided little relief.
• Fabricated charges of blasphemy were pressed, and the toothless Amendment to the procedure of investigation proved entirely useless.
• Authorities violated their own sacrosanct areas like the press. Ahmadiyya press was attacked in a major assault; but then the authorities relented.
• Rabwah, the Ahmadiyya headquarters town remained a target of alarming discrimination. The anti-Ahmadiyya mullahs enjoyed the confidence of political and official circles.
• No relief was provided to Ahmadis in any way, despite a barrage of pious statements in support of human rights and minorities.

Again, in fact, nothing changed for Ahmadis in 2005, the 6^th year of the present regime

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2004

The government maintained a deliberate posture of ‘no concern’ with human rights situation of Ahmadis in the country. Ahmadi-specific laws and discriminatory practices remained firmly in place throughout the year.

Ahmadis in prison on December 31, 2004, in religion-based cases

• Eight Ahmadis of Chak Sikandar are in prison since September 2003 on fabricated charges of a murder they did not commit. Their bails have not been granted and they continue to face the spurious trial while still in prison.
• Mr Muhammad Iqbal of District Faisalabad is undergoing life imprisonment on fabricated charge of blasphemy. He was declared guilty on the basis of evidence given by false witnesses.
• Mr Zulfiquar Ali is in prison facing trial under Hudood Ordinance on ridiculous charge of committing adultery with his own wife on the basis of her being a Muslim.

4.   Messers Shahadat Ali, Mansur Hussain and Abdul Hafeez are awaiting trial under           the Blasphemy clause PPC 295B.

Ahmadis made to face charges

Fifty one Ahmadis were made to face criminal charges under religious laws or for reasons of their faith:

1. 4 persons under the Blasphemy clauses
2. 19 under Ahmadi-specific law
3. 1 under a religious law
4. 27 under other laws, but the cause was their Ahmadi faith

Ahmadi sentenced under the dreaded Blasphemy Law

         Mr Muhammad Iqbal, a convert to Ahmadiyyat was sentenced to imprisonment for life and ordered to pay Rs. 10000/- as fine, on false charge of blasphemy against the Holy Prophet (PBUH). If he does not pay the fine, he will serve additional six months in prison. The sentence was announced by Sajjad Hussain Sundhar an Additional Session Judge, on November 29, 2004. The accusation was made by mullah Zulfiquar Ali, the Imam of village mosque, supported by false witnesses from his flock.

Miscellaneous

         Political leadership remained committed to the policy of self interest at the cost of fundamental rights of Ahmadis. The Police Post case at Rabwah and the Machine Readable Passports issue proved conclusively that the government was prepared to go an extra mile to placate the mullah and violate Ahmadis’ constitutional rights.

         The wedding invitation cards case in Sindh shows that the police and authorities have no instructions whatsoever to be mindful of Ahmadis’ human rights.

         The incarceration of 8 and prosecution of 10 Ahmadis of Chak Sikandar shows authorities’ unabashed disregard for justice as for Ahmadis are concerned.

         Separate voter lists were maintained and religious certification continued in Form IV despite Joint Electorate, to keep Ahmadis outside mainstream politics.     The mullah remained free to spit venom against Ahmadis whenever and wherever he chose. He chose often.

         Ahmadis were exposed throughout the year to stark discrimination, personal risk, job deprivation, physical harm, social alienation, religious intolerance, police victimization, political isolation, and endless prosecution. In short:

The Year 2004 was like any other preceding year since 1984.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2003

Persecution of Ahmadis went on during the year 2003 as in earlier years, as the authorities in Islamabad decided not to change their policy on the Ahmadiyya issue despite their public profession of liberal and anti-extremist agenda. It shows their ‘conversion under compulsion’ rather than a genuine change in their perception, outlook, and action.

Ahmadis murdered for their faith

1.         Mr Iqbal Ahmad, President of District Rajanpur on February 25, 2003

2.         Brigadier ® Iftikhar Ahmad in Rawalpindi Cantt on July 17, 2003

Ahmadis in prison on December 31, 2003 in religion–based cases

1-2     Mr Ismail, 75 years old and Mr Tahir Ahmad of District Rahim Yar Khan, accused under Ahmadi-specific law

3-12   Ten Ahmadis of Chak Sikandar, accused but innocent of the murder of one mulla Amir.

13-16 Four Ahmadis, undergoing imprisonment sentence, in Takht Hazara case where five Ahmadis were murdered in an Ahmadiyya mosque

17       Mr Daud Muzaffar of Rabwah, mentally unstable, charged under the anti-Ahmadiyya law

Ahmadis made to face charges

Eighty-one Ahmadis were made to face criminal charges under religious laws or for reasons of their faith.

1.        5 persons under Blasphemy clauses

2.        21 Ahmadis from Rabwah       

3.        32 Ahmadis of Chak Sikandar, subsequent to the murder of mullah Amir by someone unknown

4.        One from district Badin

5.        One in D. I. Khan in NWFP

6.        Three in Rahim Yar Khan

7.        Eighteen Ahmadis of Sadullahpur, Dist. Gujrat

Miscellaneous

           Officials at senior level collaborated with mullahs to implement unjust and harsh measures against Ahmadi individuals and institutions in the Punjab.

Life became still more difficult in NWFP where MMA government promoted anti-Ahmadiyya environment.

Mullahs exercised complete freedom in Rabwah to use the most provocative and profane language against Ahmadis.

Mullahs, in collaboration with the police, kept the Ahmadiyya population at Rabwah on edge of a possible flare-up at the convenience of the mullah.

Ahmadis’ life, liberty and property remained under siege and attack all over the country. Ahmadi-specific laws remained in place. Ahmadis were not allowed to rebuild their mosques destroyed earlier by religious fanatics. Innocent Ahmadis remained incarcerated in prisons. Ahmadis’ educational institutions forcibly taken over by the state were not returned, despite declared policy of the government.

In short, nothing changed for the better. Religious extremism had a free hand against Ahmadis in Pakistan during 2003.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2002

Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan went on as before as the discriminatory laws remained in force. The military regime had the powers and the opportunity to remove these laws from the statute book, but decided to do nothing and maintained the old policy. In fact, discrimination against Ahmadis was taken to a higher level when, despite Joint Electorate, Ahmadis were put on a Separate List as non-Muslims. This deprived them effectively of their right to vote.

Ahmadis Murdered for their Faith

1.         Mr Ghulam Mustafa Mohsin of Pir Mahal, District Toba Tek Singh, on January 10, 2002

 2.        Mr Maqsud Ahmad of Faisalabad, on September 1, 2002.

3.         Dr Rashid Ahmad of Rahim Yar Khan, was attacked on November 9, 2002; died on November 15, 2002.

4.         Mr Abdul Waheed of Faisalabad, on November 14, 2002

Punishment handed out

Mr Hameedullah Bajwah, an ex-president of Ahmadiyya Community of District Lodhran was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on September 21, 2002, under the Anti-Ahmadiyya law, by Mr Qamar Ejaz, the Senior Civil Judge at Lodhran.

Ahmadis in Prison on December 31, 2002 in Religion-based Cases

1.         Mr Abdul Majid, an octogenarian. He is in prison for the last one year and 8 months without being found ‘guilty’. Bail was denied to him even by the High Court.

2.         Mr Mushtaq A Saggon is facing trial under anti-Ahmadiyya law. He is in prison for the last four months. No bail.

3-6.      Four Ahmadis undergoing imprisonment sentence, in Takht Hazara case where five Ahmadis were murdered in Ahmadiyya Mosque by the rioters.

Ahmadis made to face Charges

Seventeen Ahmadis were made to face criminal charges under religious laws or for reason of their faith.

            1.         One in District Muzaffargarh

            2.         One in Peshawar

            3.         Two after conversion in Hafizabad

            4.         Four for building their house of worship

            5.         One had his old case reopened, in which he was not indicted earlier

            6.         Two in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir

            7.         Six in Lahore

No Political Rights                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Elections to the local and other councils were held on the basis of Separate Electorate. This resulted in no participation of Ahmadis in the government at those levels. Later, when Joint Electorate system was adapted for national elections, Ahmadis were, regardless, placed specifically on a separate list of non-Muslims. This deliberate action denied them again their right of vote, by implication. As such, Ahmadis have no representation in the government of their town Rabwah, nor they have any representation at provincial and national level.

Miscellaneous

1.         Major gains of religious parties in National and Provincial Assemblies have put Ahmadis at greater risk.

2.         Ahmadis’ traditional religious gatherings remained banned.

3.         Provocative processions and open-air conferences by non-Ahmadis are routinely permitted in Rabwah by the authorities.

4.         Mullahs remained free to foment sectarian hatred and violence against Ahmadis in society.

5.         Ahmadiyya life, liberty and property remained under siege and attack all over the country.

6.         Ahmadis faced discrimination and harassment in education.

7.         The officialdom exercised discrimination and injustice against members of the Ahmadiyya Community.

8.         The vernacular press continued with its unethical and unworthy role in support of the anti-Ahmadiyya lobby.

9.         Hundreds of Ahmadis charged under anti-Ahmadiyya laws during past years continued appearing before courts.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2001

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A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 2000

Murdered only for their faith

      1.         Dr. Shamsul Haq at Faisalaad on January 17, 2000

      2.          Mr Abdul Latif at Chak Bhauru, District Sheikhupura on June 8, 2000 

1. Mr Iftikhar Ahmad at Ghatialian, District Sialkot on October 30, 2000

4.         Mr.  Shehzad Ahmad       “                             “                “

5.         Mr. Ata Ullah                   “                             “                “

6.         Mr. Ghulam Mohammad  “                             “                “

7.         Mr. Abbas                         “                             “                “

1. Nasir Ahmad at Takht Hazara, District Sargodha on November 10, 2000
2. Nazir Ahmad                  “                               “                  “
3. Arif Ahmad           “                               “                  “
4. Mubarak Ahmad             “                               “                  “
5. Mudassar Ahmad            “                               “                  “

Sentenced

1. Mr. Ataullah Waraich, Ahmadi of Chak 11/F.W. District Bahawalnagar sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under PPC 298B for building a niche and minaret in an Ahmadiyya mosque.
2. Mr. Mubarak Ahmad Nusrat, Ahmadi of Mirpur Khas sentenced to 2 months and 21 days imprisonment and Rs. 3000 fine for offering prayers.
3. Sh. Muhammad Yusuf sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and Rs. 5000 fine at Qasur on 11 October, 2000 for displaying Quranic verses at his shop and the Kalima (Islamic creed) at his door.
4. Messers Mohammad Hussain and Mohammad Sadiq were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and Rs. 5000 fine at Qasur on October 11, 2000 for displaying Kalima (Islamic creed) at their house.

Charged

166 Ahmadis were booked under the Anti-Ahmadiyya law, other religious laws or for religious reasons. Three of them were charged under various clauses of the Blasphemy Law.

Mosques violated

During the Year 2000, two Ahmadiyya mosques were demolished, two were handed over to non-Ahmadis, one was sealed, construction of another one was blocked, two were desecrated and seven mosques were actively threatened with the like activity.

The Terror of Anti-Terrorism Act

20 Ahmadis were wrongfully charged under religious law PPC 295A for preaching etc and pushed to Anti- Terrorist Special Courts.

Prisoners

Prison population remained high throughout the year. At one time it rose to 45 Ahmadis in prison. Even at the end of the year, 25 Ahmadis were in prison on various counts, all of them for accusations related to religion. Most of them are behind bars for two and half years.

Expulsion from Home and Hearth

Scores of Ahmadi families were forced by the prevailing persecution to leave their home and hearth to seek protection elsewhere. This resulted in immense hardship to the effected families.

Government Policy    

Throughout the year, the government actively pursued the policy of doing nothing to alleviate the sufferings of the Ahmadiyya Community. Mullas were given a free hand.

A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 1999

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A Summary of the Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan

Some statistics and information for January 1 – December 31, 1998

1. Murdered for their Faith

a.         Mr. Ayub Azam of Wah Cantt was murdered on 7 July 1998.

b.         Malik Naseer Ahmad, President Ahmadiyya Community Vehari was murdered on 4 August 1998.

c.         Master Nazir Ahmad Buggio of Nawab Shah was murdered on 10 October 1998.

d.         Malik Ejaz Ahmad was murdered at Wazirabad on 1 December 1998.

2. Murderous Assaults

a.         On Dr Bilal Ahmad of D.G.Khan on 13 January 1998

b.         On Mr. Bashir Ahmad, President Jamaat Arain, on 13/14 (night) August 1998

• Number of Ahmadis implicated in various criminal cases under religious

laws, which carry severe punishments including mostly Death, imprisonment for life and Unlimited

fines-       106

4. Number of Ahmadis implicated under the Blasphemy Law, PPC 295 C, for which the prescribed punishment is nothing but ‘Death”-        28

5. Ahmadis in Prison

a. Messers Abdul Qadeer, Ashfaq Ahmad and Shahbaz are serving life sentences under the Blasphemy Law.

b. Mr. Waheed Ahmad is serving 10 years’ prison term for allegedly filling in the religious column of Census Performa incorrectly for another person.

c. Fifteen Ahmadis from Naukot are in prison awaiting trial. They were arrested subsequent to the incident when a non-Ahmadi mob attacked their place of worship.

d. Four Ahmadis from Chak 20 Ghugh, district Jhang, are in prison awaiting trial under PPC 298-C.

6. Group Persecution

As a result of incidents at Naukot/Nafisnagar precipitated by mullahs, seventeen Ahmadis of Naukot and five from Nafisnagar were charged; not a single mullah has been arrested. Four Ahmadis at Chak 20, six in district Gujranwala, five at Pattoki, eleven in district Sialkot while eleven from District Gujrat have been implicated in various criminal and civil cases on communal grounds.

7. Ahmadiyya Mosques sealed by the Government

a. At Gilgit on 4-2-1998

b. At Drigh Road on 23-1-1998

8. Mosque destoryed

            At Naukot (Sind)

9. Mosques under litigation

a.         Dulmial, district Chakwal

b.         Goleki, district Gujrat

c.         Kharian, district Gujrat

d.         Kot Mirza Jan, district Gujranwala

e.         Musa Wala, district Sialkot

f.          Sahiwal

10. Raid at Ahmadiyya Mission

Ahmadiyya Centre raided by the Police at Swat. Books, cassettes, files, photographs confiscated. Ahmadi Missionary and son of the local Ahmadi leader arrested, and charged under discriminatory religious laws. Ahmadi President of Swat Community also charged under the Ahmadi specific laws.

11. Government Policy

The government has directly encouraged anti-Ahmadiyya gangsters in all their efforts to suppress and victimize Ahmadiyya Community. As a result human rights situation has visibly worsened for Ahmadis this year. There is a quantum jump in the number of criminal cases in which Ahmadis have been implicated. The government has insisted on sending Ahmadiyya cases to anti-terrorist courts for quick disposal. Change of name of Rabwah town is the new low in the State’s attitude towards Ahmadis.