Perspective: Between dictators and democrats, Pakistan’s Ahmadis continue to suffer

Perspective: Between dictators and democrats, Pakistan’s Ahmadis continue to suffer | Lutf Islam

Various AMTKN publications reveal how much this organisation and its various allies were historically involved in the so-called Afghan “jihad”.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK desk
Source/Credit: Sunday Guardian Live
By Lutful Islam | 15 April, 2017

The main outfit behind most anti-Ahmadi violence in Pakistan is the Aalmi Majlise Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwwat (AMTKN).

1989 was a historic year for many reasons. The cold war culminated with Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and its disintegration soon afterwards. The Afghan “mujahideen”, who were at the vanguard of this war, had now turned their guns at each other. Pakistan, a state that sponsored and mentored them was experiencing its first taste of democracy after 11 years of Zia dictatorship. Benazir Bhutto was the Prime Minister.

Prof Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s only Nobel Laureate, travelled to Pakistan to meet her. He hoped to bring cutting edge science to his country, which was denied to him by the previous regime. But she refused to meet him. Salam was an Ahmadi Muslim and Bhutto couldn’t afford to invite the ire of the Pakistani clergy by meeting him.
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