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AHMADI COMMUNITY NEWS

Six Ahmadi community members arrested in Pakistan after earlier being provided with protective custody

March 08, 2025 3:10 pm

The police registered cases against the Ahmadi community members after taking them into protective custody when Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) activists gathered outside their place of worship in Surjani town of Karachi to prevent them from offering “Friday prayers”.

36 Ahmadi community members arrested in Pakistan for animal sacrifice on Eid-ul Adha

June 18, 2024 10:37 pm

The Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan, which represents the minority community in the country, strongly protested the authorities preventing Ahmadis from offering their religious rites within the confinement of their homes during Eid.

Pak authorities demolish minarets of worship place of Ahmadi community in Punjab

June 12, 2024 11:31 pm

Most Ahmadi worship places have come under attack by the TLP activists while in other incidents police on the pressure of religious extremists demolished minarets, and arches and removed sacred writings.

Why are Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan under attack by vandals?

February 04, 2023 10:17 am

The sect’s origins lie in Qadian near Amritsar in Punjab, India. Seen as non-Muslims in Pakistan, and treated as such by law, Ahmadiyya places of worship have been repeatedly attacked

16 graves of minority Ahmadi community desecrated in Pakistan's Punjab province 

August 24, 2022 1:27 pm

The Islamic verses are inscribed on the tombstones of a number of graves in the graveyard of the community.

Pakistan removes economist from key role following Islamist backlash

September 07, 2018 11:52 pm

The failure of Prime Minister Imran Khan's government to resist pressure to drop economist Atif Mian reflects the increasing clout of hardline Islamists, whose parties won around 10 percent of the vote at the last election in July.

Pak's Ahmadi community releases persecution report: 77 from minority sect booked in 2017

April 28, 2018 1:56 pm

With a general election due in 2018, politicians from both the religious fringe and established parties have had the Ahmadis in their sights.

Pakistan: 300 activists of TLP arrested for anti-Ahmadi protests

November 12, 2017 10:53 pm

Over a dozen TLP activists and five policemen were injured during the clashes as protesters pelted stones at police who fired teargas.

Minority and the mob

June 07, 2014 12:31 am

Pakistan’s deathwish hatred is the Ahmadi community.

Six persons charged with blasphemy in Pakistan

May 14, 2014 2:43 pm

Blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue in Islamic Pakistan and insulting the Prophet Mohammed can carry the death penalty.

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