In a statement released on Friday The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemned the attack against a Shia mosque in Shikarpur, Pakistan which killed dozens of people. The Press statement by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community read: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and all those affected by this evil and outrageous attack. We would like to offer our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to all those who have been left bereaved and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community stands ready to help those …
Waqas Ahmed, 30, from Claremont Meadows. Arrived from Pakistan in 1995 There are laws in Pakistan that make the lives of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan difficult. The older you get, the harder it gets. You live a life of always finding shelter, being very careful about how you choose your words, how you show emotion. We can’t openly defend ourselves. We cannot call ourselves Muslims over there, if we do, we can potentially go to jail. We believe in the …
A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has sentenced two Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) men, Moavia and Abdullah, to death on Saturday for their role in a deadly attack on an Ahmadi place of worship in 2010. Ninety-four people were killed and over 100 others were injured in the May 28, 2010 attack on two Ahmadiyya Mosques in Lahore. The Taliban claimed responsibility. The attacks sparked more than two hours of gun battles with police and commandos. Muaviya and Abdullah were detained at …
Khatme-Nabuwat Sargodha an anti-Ahmadiyya Islamist group has postponed the staging of a protest demonstration in Rabwah by 15 days after district authorities promised to redress its grievances. The organisation had originally planned to stage the demonstration on December 26th but has decided to postpone the protest by 15 days after receiving assurances from district authorities. A representative of the organization said the organisation would stage nationwide demonstrations if the government did not accept its demands. According to the poster circulated …
Gunmen in a Punjab village shot dead a member of the Ahmadi religious minority on Saturday, five days after a Muslim leader denounced Ahmadis on a popular television show. “Lucman Ahmad- who was in his 20s- left his house for his agriculture farm on Gujranwala-Hafizabad road yesterday morning, when two unidentified motorcyclists intercepted him and opened fire at him, killing him on the spot,” Saleemuddin, spokesperson for Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan, said on Sunday. Kot Ladha SHO Malik Fayyaz Ahmed said …
In a morning TV show on Pakistan’s most watched TV channel televangelist Aamir Liaquat Hussain along with panel of Muslim clerics declared Ahmadiyya Muslims “enemies of Pakistan” and “enemies of Islam”. Responding to the broadcast the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community issued the following statement: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns a recent edition of the programme, ‘Subh e Pakistan’, broadcast in Pakistan on GEO Television on 22 December 2014, hosted by Amir Liaquat Hussein, in which so-called religious scholars made completely false …
The three-day annual international conference of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community began today at its headquarters in Qadian town of Indian Punjab, with the participation of more than 17,000 delegates from all over the world including 6,000 from Pakistan. The first batch of delegates from Pakistan arrived in Qadian through different buses via Wagah border on December 17th. The Indian government has granted visas to 6,000 Pakistani delegates to take part in the conference. Sayed Tanveer Amhad, External Affairs Secretary and …
Ahmadi Muslims mourn 150 children in Peshawar murdered by Taliban Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack on Peshawar Government schools. Reports indicate at least 150 children have been killed and scores more injured.
A Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry crowd after being accused of desecrating a Koran, police say. Shahzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama Bibi, a married couple with four children, were beaten and then burnt alive in a brick kiln where they worked yesterday (4 November) after they were accused of desecrating the Quran by a co-worker. According to the Pakistan Christian Post, mosque loudspeakers in Kot Rada Kishan, Kasur district of Punjab, …
Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which turns 30 this year, has become only more deadly with age. Since blasphemy was made a capital crime under the nation’s secular penal code, the effect has been to suppress moderate influences, pushing “Pakistani society further out on the slippery slope of extremism,” said Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, in Washington last week. With its large population and sensitive location, Pakistan is a place where any societal shift in the direction of …
Residents of Rabwah have self-secured themselves as the general population plans for the approaching 33th International Khatme Nabuwat conference to be held in the region of Rabwah on 6th September 2014. Posters publicizing the get-together have been plastered all over from Chiniot to Chenab Nagar (Rabwah). Individuals from all over Pakistan have started arriving in the adjacent city of Chiniot, the same city in April 2009 renamed its town centre from Tehsil Chowk to “Khatme Nabuwat Chowk”.
Muslim group Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at among many which have condemned the Ottawa shootings Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada issued a statement saying the group “categorically and unequivocally condemns” the attacks in Ottawa and Quebec. In a statement announcing the rally, the group said the goal of the rally is to “stand shoulder to shoulder with fellow Canadians and categorically and unequivocally condemn radicalization and all acts of terror.” The rally is set for 2 to 3 p.m. CST at Saskatoon City …