Pakistan’s Parliament has passed legislation establishing a National Commission for Minority Rights — but rather than safeguarding vulnerable communities, the new law cements the exclusion of Ahmadi Muslims from even the most basic protections. This is not reform. It is a formal reinforcement of state-backed discrimination that has defined Ahmadi life in Pakistan for [...]
Chenab Nagar (Rabwah), Pakistan – October 10, 2025 A terrorist attack has struck at the heart of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s international headquarters city, Rabwah (Chenab Nagar), shortly after Friday prayers. The assailant opened fire on worshippers at the Bait-ul-Mahdi mosque, injuring multiple community members. At least three are critically wounded and undergoing surgery [...]
The Silent Genocide Continues — Pakistan’s War on Ahmadi Muslims Turns to Expulsion and Arson Incident Summary On September 28, 2025, extremist mobs allegedly led by Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) launched violent attacks against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Village Piro Chak, District Sialkot, Pakistan. Several houses and 1 shop were set ablaze. Vehicles and [...]
A City of Faith Marked for Persecution—Extremism in Broad Daylight On September 6 & 7, 2025, extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has announced a mass procession through Chenab Nagar (Rabwah)—a city that is home to 99% of the world’s Ahmadi Muslims. This is not a peaceful march. It is a calculated plan to shut [...]
Another Night. Another Desecration. State Machinery Bent to Extremist Demands. On the night of September 2, 2025, Punjab Police and municipal officials, under pressure from extremist groups including Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), demolished the minarets and mihrabs of two Ahmadiyya places of worship in Chahur Mughliyan and Chahur Kotli, District Nankana Sahib. Despite repeated objections [...]
On Pakistan’s Independence Day, 14 August 2025—the very day its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, declared that citizens of all faiths are free to worship without fear—Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) extremists and local mobs launched violent, coordinated attacks on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 275 Kartarpur, Faisalabad District, Punjab. Under the guise of patriotic processions, perpetrators [...]
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Kotli, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, has issued a legal notice to Ahmadi Muslim citizens for offering Friday (Jummah) prayers within their own private residences. The notice, dated August 4, 2025, accuses the Ahmadi community of violating Pakistan Penal Code Sections 298-B and 298-C, laws which specifically target and criminalize Ahmadi [...]
The Silent Genocide Deepens — Pakistan’s War on Ahmadi Muslims Reaches Their Dead Incident Summary: On the night between July 28 and 29, 2025, at approximately 1:30 AM, personnel from Aimanabad Police Station, District Gujranwala, accompanied by unidentified individuals in plain clothes, carried out a premeditated and illegal demolition of a 70-year-old Ahmadiyya place [...]
Blasphemy by Biryani (Curry Rice)? When Compassion Becomes a Crime and the Courts Enable Apartheid On July 6, 2025, in the city of Gujranwala, Pakistan, an Ahmadi Muslim man, Mr. Munawwar Ahmad, was arrested and charged under Section 298-C of the Pakistan Penal Code—for distributing biryani to his neighbours on the Day of Ashura. [...]
Another Friday. Another Attack. A Pattern of Terror. On July 11, 2025, yet another Friday, Ahmadiyya Muslim worshippers in Pakistan were targeted in a coordinated escalation of violence by members of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a known extremist group responsible for orchestrating mob terror under the guise of religious sanctity. As is becoming a sinister [...]
Charitable Act Leads to Arrest Under Pakistan’s Discriminatory Laws On 6 July 2025, a deeply troubling incident occurred in Ali Park, Gujranwala, where Mr. Munawwar Ahmad, son of Mr. Allah Rakha, was arrested by police and booked under FIR No. 1721/25 at Satellite Town Police Station, under Section 298-C of Pakistan’s Penal Code—a section [...]
In recent years, particularly escalating sharply within the last twelve months, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan has faced unprecedented persecution characterized by systematic violence, discriminatory apartheid practices, and a silent genocide orchestrated by extremist factions, notably Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), with complicit support from governmental structures. The Pakistani state, through discriminatory laws embedded in [...]
Attention, International Community: On June 13, 2025, in a harrowing continuation of religious persecution, unidentified assailants desecrated 6 gravestones at the Ahmadiyya Muslim cemetery in Tehsil Sehnsa, Kotli, District Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The attackers struck early in the morning, deliberately targeting symbols of Ahmadi identity, further perpetuating the community’s ongoing suffering and systematic [...]
Criminalized for Worship, Targeted for Faith—The System is the Executioner On June 7, 2025, while millions of Muslims in Pakistan gathered in joy to offer Eid ul-Adha prayers and animal sacrifice, Ahmadi Muslims across the country were met not with celebration—but with intimidation, arrests, mosque closures, and public threats of annihilation. This wasn’t isolated. [...]
Pakistan escalates anti-Ahmadi persecution with forced affidavits, bans on sacrifice, and nationwide orders to silence prayers A New Phase in the Persecution of Ahmadis. As the sacred days of Eid al-Adha approach, Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) terrorist have launched a coordinated effort to deny Ahmadi Muslims the right to worship, sacrifice, or even gather [...]
The Threats Are No Longer Hidden. They Are On Camera. They Are Public. And They Are Unpunished. Two videos have recently surfaced from Pakistan. They are not leaks. They are not secret. They are proudly recorded declarations—sermons delivered by religious clerics associated with Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) that outline, in chilling clarity, a public call [...]
Silent Genocide Isn't Just a Metaphor—It’s a System For decades, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan has been cornered into silence, criminalized for their faith, and suffocated by systemic hate. Today, that hate is not just spoken in sermons or whispered in mobs—it is printed, distributed, and weaponized in the form of hate flyers [...]
Targeted for Faith, Hunted by Hate—The Genocide of Ahmadi Muslims Continues Unchecked ANOTHER AHMEDI KILLED IN COLD BLOOD: PAKISTAN’S SILENCE IS COMPLICITY The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the assassination of Dr. Sheikh Mahmood Sahib, a respected 58-year-old Ahmadi Muslim and leading gastroenterologist in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. He was gunned down on [...]
Tortured in Court, Denied Bail, Deprived of Care: A Case of Genocidal Persecution in Karachi The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the custodial death of Mr Tahir Mahmood aged 71, on Sunday 11th May 2025, an Ahmadi Muslim unjustly arrested and imprisoned in Malir, Karachi for the peaceful act of offering Friday [...]
An Unforgivable Act of Religious Hatred and State Complicity, Carried Out While Pakistan Fights Its Own War The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the desecration of over 90 Ahmadi Muslim graves in Rhoda, Tehsil and District Khushab, Punjab, Pakistan—a shameful act of religious hatred, carried out under the shadow of state complicity [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) issues its strongest condemnation following yet another horrific act of religiously motivated violence in Pakistan. On the night of April 24, 2025, two Ahmadi Muslim youths were ambushed by armed extremists in Bhullair, District Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan. Muhammad Asif, a 19-year-old student, was shot dead, while Ihsan Ahmad [...]
A shocking and deeply disturbing act of religiously motivated violence occurred in Karachi, Pakistan on April 18, 2025, when Mr. Laiq Ahmed Cheema, a 46-year-old member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, was brutally murdered by unknown assailants while on his way to offer prayers. This assassination is yet another tragic episode in the ongoing [...]
A deeply malicious, senseless and shocking act of religious discrimination unfolded in Farooqabad, Sheikhupura on April 13, when local authorities, under pressure from extremist factions, desecrated an Ahmadiyya mosque. This incident, carried out by Special Branch Police and local labourers, starkly illustrates the growing alignment between state institutions and hardline groups like Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan [...]
In a chilling display of religious persecution, authorities in Punjab have filed criminal charges against members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Their so-called crime? Peacefully practicing their faith. This latest act of injustice reflects the ongoing, systematic abuse of international human rights laws—carried out under direct pressure from the extremist group Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). [...]
Under severe pressure from Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Punjab Police continues its vandalism of Ahmadi Muslim Mosques in Sangla Hill and Salimpur, Punjab, Pakistan. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the recent violent attacks targeting Ahmadiyya Muslim worship places in Sangla Hill, Nankana Sahib, and Salimpur, Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan. These deliberate acts are [...]
Extremist-backed order outlines complete societal expulsion of Ahmadis in Chak 275-RB, State silence signals complicity The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the circulation of a disturbing document from Chak 275-RB, Kartarpur, District Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan calling for the systematic apartheid of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. This letter, publicly endorsed by local religious [...]
Shameful Resolution at Bahawalnagar Bar Council Seeks Segregation of Utensils Based on Faith The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) expresses its strongest condemnation of the appalling and discriminatory resolution submitted by members of the District Bar Association in Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan. This resolution demands the segregation of utensils used by Ahmadi Muslims, citing religious [...]
Eid 2025 Marks an Alarming New Depth in Religious Apartheid Against Ahmadis Faith is not a crime. Worship is not provocation. Yet in Pakistan, the act of praying has become a punishable offense—especially if you're an Ahmadi. Following earlier state directives from Rawalpindi and Lahore banning Ahmadis from offering Eid prayers, the Eid day [...]
Criminalizing Faith, Enabling Extremism—A State-Driven Assault on Religious Freedom State Directives from Rawalpindi and Lahore The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) condemns the Pakistani government’s ongoing and intensifying persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. In a deeply alarming development, two major cities—Rawalpindi and Lahore—have issued formal directives instructing police to ban Ahmadis from offering [...]
Genocide by Intimidation, Arrests & Forced Exodus: Pakistan’s Anti-Ahmadi Apartheid Deepens The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the continued escalation of violence against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. On 28 March 2025, during another Friday in the holy month of Ramadan, a violent mob led by the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan [...]
Raiwind and Islampura Mosques Attacked as TLP-Led Mobs Terrorize with Police Backing The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is deeply alarmed by two violent incidents targeting the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan where mosques were sealed, worshippers criminalized, and extremist demands enforced by state authorities. Raiwind: Minaret Demolished; Worshippers Arrested On 21 [...]
Graves Desecrated in a Chilling Attack Before Dawn Kotli, Azad Kashmir – 21 March 2025: In a horrifying act of religious hatred, all 76 gravestones at the Ahmadiyya Muslim graveyard in Kotli City were desecrated by unidentified attackers in the early hours of 21 March. The assailants struck during Sehri (pre-dawn hours), deliberately exploiting [...]
On March 21, 2025, Ahmadi Muslim’s in Islampura, Punjab—like all Muslims worldwide—gathered at their local mosque for Friday prayers. Today, two peaceful worshippers are behind bars, and 48 others face imminent arrest. Their crime? Being accused of "posing" as Muslims simply for practicing their faith and offering prayers as per their belief. Videos1 circulating [...]
Talagang: Ahmadiyya Muslim Place of Worship (Mosque) Under Threat by Extremist Mob. On 19 March 2025, members of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) gathered in large numbers in Talagang, specifically in the village of and at Tarhada Chowk, with the intent to demolish an Ahmadiyya Muslim place of worship. The mob included individuals from surrounding villages [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is urgently appealing to Pakistani authorities and members of the international community to intervene as Ahmadi citizens face unprecedented threats to their religious freedom and right to life itself. A seemingly coordinated series of expulsions from mosques and arrest warrants for Ahmadis on 28 February has resulted in [...]
Government Notices and Judicial Complicity Set the Stage for Targeted Hate & Violence The international community, including the European Union, USA, and UK, must act now. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is issuing an urgent appeal regarding the Pakistani government’s role in promoting extremist narratives and its complicity in the persecution against the [...]
Accused of offering Friday Prayers, Ahmadis Prevented from Praying and Detained The international community must act immediately. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is urgently appealing to Pakistani authorities and members of the international community to intervene as Ahmadi citizens face unprecedented threats to their religious freedom and right to life itself. A seemingly [...]
The international community, including the European Union, USA, and UK, must act now The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) urgently calls for immediate intervention as hate speech and incitement to genocide against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community escalate in Pakistan. Recent speeches by Naeem Chatta Qadri, a leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), have openly called [...]
TLP issues threats, the state obeys: Ahmadiyya worship places attacked and demolished across Pakistan A systematic crackdown on Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan is unfolding. Since the start of 2025, persecution against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan has intensified. Multiple social media account have reported multiple cases of mosque demolitions across Punjab and Karachi. In [...]
Accused of offering Friday Prayers, Ahmadis were sent to prison. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is urgently appealing to Pakistani authorities and members of the international community to intervene as Ahmadi citizens face unprecedented threats to their religious freedom and right to life itself. Karachi A case was registered on 7 March 2025, [...]
Pakistan Arrests 22 Ahmadi Muslims For Praying – A Shameful Assault On Human Rights Sialkot, Pakistan – The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) sounds the alarm on an outrageous and unconscionable violation of fundamental freedoms in Pakistan. Twenty-two (22) Ahmadi Muslims have been arrested and face criminal charges for the “crime” of offering Friday [...]
Accused of offering Friday Prayers, Ahmadis Face Arrest The international community, including the European Union, USA and UK must act The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is urgently appealing to Pakistani authorities and members of the international community to intervene as Ahmadi citizens face unprecedented threats to their religious freedom and right to life [...]
In 10 days 3 Ahmadiyya Mosques Attacked by Official Under TLP Pressure Punjab, Pakistan – In a disturbing escalation of state-backed persecution, Pakistani authorities, under pressure from the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), have directly participated in the destruction of Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques across Punjab. In just 10 days in February 2025, police not [...]
Escalating Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan: Police Illegally Seal Places of Worship The persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan has reached a dangerous new level. Reports from local sources confirm that authorities are actively enabling the oppression of Ahmadis by bowing to extremist demands. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community, a peaceful religious minority [...]
Pakistani Ahmadi Woman Jailed for Suggesting Quran Teacher – IHRC Demands Immediate Release. Bushra Abid, a married woman who works as a Health Visitor, is under arrest. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is calling for her immediate release. Mrs. Bushra Abid has been arrested under Pakistan’s discriminatory blasphemy laws simply for responding to [...]
40 Ahmadi Graves Desecrated, Worshippers Under Attack—Police Side with Mobs Instead of Protecting Victims The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is deeply alarmed to learn about reports having been submitted to the Police with the desecration of the 7 Graves in the Graveyard and Wall Chalking private residences under the hateful words of “Qadiani’s [...]
A historic mosque in Daska, Pakistan, built by Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistan’s first Foreign Minister, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who served as President of the International Court of Justice as well as the UN General Assembly, and has been completely demolished by extremists. This alarming act underscores the growing [...]
There Is No End to Ahmadis’ Suffering A provocative campaign is underway against Ahmadis across the country. The government should take immediate action, feeling of insecurity is rising in the community. Picture: In the jurisdiction of Naukot Police Station, district Mirpurkhas in the area of Fazal Bhimbro an Ahmadi named Mr. Ameer Hassan was [...]
On 5th December 2024, an assailant murdered Ahmadi Muslim Tayyab Ahmad with an axe in broad daylight, declaring: "Qadianis! We warned you to leave this place and vacate the area." “This brutal killing is the result of giving a free hand to extremists involved in anti-Ahmadi activities and the lack of appropriate actions. Ahmadis [...]
In Kakhonwali Sialkot, police again demolish minarets of an Ahmadiyya Mosque According to information received by the International Human Rights Committee (IHRC), an opponent of Ahmadiyya Muslims named Sajjad on 25th October demanded that the minaret and the niche of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque should be demolished. Upon this the SHO Phulora Police [...]
Ahmadi citizens, seeking to protect the sacred building, have been charged with fighting and rioting. According to International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) sources, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) members and extremist elements attacked the Mosque and Ahmadiyya Muslims homes in Kot Karam Bakhsh, Sialkot, in the presence of the police. The police have filed baseless cases [...]
Reports about the Desecration of the Tombstones, Desecration of the Niche, and Desecration of the Ahmadiyya Worship Places Continue. An extremist cleric has again issued lethal threats against Ahmadi citizens, according to social media videos monitored by the International Human Rights Committee (IHRC). As previously reported by IHRC, Naeem Chatta Qadri is threatening to [...]
“Every aspect of Ahmadi life in Pakistan is under threat” While every aspect of Ahmadi life is under threat, the safety and stability of the society at large is at risk in Pakistan. Religious extremists of the Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have issued a threat to the Chiniot district administration: “If you do [...]
Vandalism of Ahmadi Mosque Takes Place Under Government Supervision Ahmadis in Pakistan have been reduced to appalling deprivation of their freedom of religion, faith and practice and their places of worship are being destroyed ruthlessly. During the past couple of days, four Mosques were desecrated and their domes and Minarets knocked down with the [...]
Ahmadi Muslim tombstones are routinely damaged under the pretext that they include Islamic phrases and are thus illegal under Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadi legislation. According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, “The number of gravestone desecrations in Pakistan has sharply increased due to extremist political parties’ use of anti-Ahmadi and blasphemy laws as [...]
On 22nd September in the afternoon the workers of Tehreek e Labbaik and other Clerics gathered outside the Ahmadiyya Mosque of Islamia Park, Lahore. They were having the demand that a search shall be carried out at inside the Mosque and the Mosque shall be sealed. This video[1] documents on such action. The Police [...]
“Ahmadis in Pakistan are facing unprecedented threats, a looming massacre” The International Human Rights Committee IHRC) is receiving numerous reports of “squads” of armed, TLP extremists in Khanpur hunting down Ahmadis in so-called “Operation Neat and Clean Pakistan.” This video[1] documents on such action. Screenshot of video documenting “squads” of armed TLP extremists in [...]
Intolerance and hatred towards Ahmadis in Pakistan are nothing new, rather it has spread all over Pakistan and gaining momentum each passing day under the local police supervision. Systematic marginalisation of Ahmadis in all walks of life because of their religious beliefs is not considered condemnable and Ahmadis are being treated without even Basic [...]
On September 7, 2024, leading Suni Muslim scholar Maulvi Manzoor Mengal repeatedly incited the audience to kill Ahmadis at the Khatnam-e-Nububat conference organized by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam at Minar-e-Pakistan Lahore. Maulvi Manzoor Mengal declared Ahmadi Muslims to be “apostates,” saying that “the apostate must be killed…. it is the responsibility of the government to kill [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is again calling the attention of the international community to intensifying threats against the Ahmadi citizens in Pakistan. Enjoying virtual immunity from official sanction, and magnified by viral social media posts, hatred for Ahmadis has become a form of mass hysteria. An example of illegal incitement to violence [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is alarmed that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been violently attacked in the course of the recent the political upheaval in Bangladesh, as law and order have broken down. Properties, houses, shops, and mosques in different parts of the country have been burned and looted. Nearly twenty Ahmadis [...]
Another unfortunate news from the land of atrocities has come this morning. It is with agonizing, heart-rending grief that we come to you with the tragic news that another Ahmadi Muslim has been brutally shot dead in cold-blooded murder, as the spate of attacks continue on Ahmadis in Pakistan. Picture: Dr. Zaka Ur Rehman [...]
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