Pakistan: Intolerant nation finding new ways to torment its minorities

Ahmadis went from being treated as zealous reformist Muslims to non-Muslims to kafir, or heretics – worse even than Hindus or Jews.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Int'l Desk
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By ANI | October 20, 2017

Karachi: Pakistan was essentially created to protect the religious and economic rights of Muslims who were a minority before the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. But since the country’s inception, new minorities have been created and Islamabad keeps finding new ways to torment them.

In an article for the New York Times, well known author and columnist Mohammed Hanif claims Pakistan has a poor record of protecting its religious minorities.

Taking the case of the Ahmadiya community in particular, who insist on calling themselves Muslims, he says mainstream Muslims treat them as the “worst form of heretics.”

Hanif, who is the author of novels “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” and “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti,” says, “You would think that government, law enforcers and the courts would do something about such sustained acts of brutality..”
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Complements: The Times of Ahmad

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