An Ahmadi Muslim government official in Punjab, Pakistan, has been removed from his posting following an organised extremist campaign demanding his removal because of his faith, with Khatm-e-Nabuwwat groups now publicly celebrating the decision as a victory for their campaign. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is gravely concerned by the case of Naghman [...]
Children Indoctrinated with Sectarian Ideology as Police Interfere with Ahmadi Funeral and Mourning Arrangements The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) expresses grave concern over two recent developments in Pakistan that demonstrate the continuing institutionalisation and normalisation of anti-Ahmadi hatred. The incidents highlight how intolerance towards the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is cultivated from childhood and [...]
Targeted Shooting Outside Ahmadiyya Headquarters Leaves Three Ahmadis Critically Injured in Rabwah, amid escalating anti-Ahmadi hostility and renewed concerns for the safety of religious minorities in Pakistan. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) is deeply concerned by a targeted shooting that took place on the evening of 5 June 2026 outside the Bait-ul-Aqsa Mosque, [...]
Eid-ul-Adha 2026 exposed the reality faced by Ahmadis in Pakistan: a community forced to observe a sacred religious festival under the constant threat of surveillance, police action, and criminal prosecution. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) expresses grave concern over the treatment of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan during Eid-ul-Adha 2026, as authorities [...]
Bar associations, extremist groups and police complaint mechanisms are being used to pressure authorities to block Eid prayers, Qurbani and basic religious expression The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) expresses grave concern over a coordinated and escalating campaign across Pakistan aimed at preventing members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community from observing Eid-ul-Adha, the Muslim [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has received reports concerning the desecration of an Ahmadiyya place of worship in Jamalpur, District Khairpur, Sindh. Prior to this incident, a hate campaign had reportedly been initiated against Ahmadiyya places of worship in Goth Ali Muhammad Jutt and Jamalpur, within the jurisdiction of Police Station Kot Lalo, [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) expresses grave concern over the targeted harassment and subsequent removal of an Ahmadi Muslim headmaster from his position in Rajana, District Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, following a coordinated pressure campaign led by extremist religious elements. Mr. Ahmad, a resident of Rajana, Punjab, Pakistan had been serving as Headmaster [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has documented a disturbing incident involving the desecration of Ahmadiyya Muslim graves in Village 37/12-L, Tehsil Chichawatni, District Sahiwal. On 16 March 2026, unknown individuals vandalised at least seven graves belonging to members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, deliberately defacing religious inscriptions on gravestones. This incident reflects a [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the coordinated actions of state authorities and influential legal bodies in Pakistan that have resulted in the prevention of Ahmadiyya Muslim citizens from observing their religious rites on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr (21 March 2026). Reports confirm that Punjab Police officials forcibly intervened to prevent Ahmadis [...]
Joharabad, District Khushab, Punjab, Pakistan – 29 December 2025 On the evening of 29 December 2025, Mr. Mubashir Ahmad Virk, a 55-year-old Ahmadi Muslim resident of Joharabad, District Khushab, Pakistan was the victim of a targeted shooting in what constitutes an attempted murder. Mr. Virk was returning from his farmhouse on a motorcycle when, [...]
IHRC condemns judgment as a grave escalation of religious persecution in violation of international human rights norms The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the judgment of an Additional Sessions Court in Lalian, Punjab, which sentenced Mubarak Ahmad Saani, an Ahmadi Muslim, to life imprisonment under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for acts of peaceful [...]
Historic mosque in Gujranwala targeted amid growing legalised discrimination Incident in Lawairi Wala, District Gujranwala Lawairi Wala, District Gujranwala, Punjab – 4 December 2025: Around 4 p.m., officials from the Revenue Department entered an Ahmadiyya mosque in Lawairi Wala and demolished its prayer niche (mihrab). The operation, carried out without prior notice to the [...]
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 [...]
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) deeply regrets to note the death on November 8 of Shahriar Rakeen, a 16-year-old Bangladeshi, who was brutally assaulted during the extremist attacks on August 5th. During the attacks in Ahmednagar and Panchagarth, Rakeen was beaten on the head with lethal weapons. In efforts to save his life, [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
On June 10, 2024, the Deputy Police Commissioner of Chakwal has issued orders to detain three Ahmadi Muslim leaders in order to prevent religious observances, which the officials claim are “unlawful activities” that threaten “public order.” They include President of Ahmadiyya Community District Chakwal Malik Naveed Ahmad, former President of Ahmadiyya Community District Chakwal [...]
In the midst of a rash of lethal violence against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan, the Lahore High Court Bar Association directed regional police officials to take legal action against Ahmadi Muslims gathering, observing and praying during Muslim Eid celebrations. In directives on 6 June 2024, the lawyer’s association referred to laws that declare the [...]
It is with agonizing, heart-rending grief that we come to you with the tragic news that two Ahmadi Muslims have been brutally shot dead in coldblooded murders, as the spate of attacks continue on Ahmadis in Pakistan. According to the IHRC sources, today on June 8th, 2024 two Ahmadis namely Ghulam Sarwar S/O Mr. [...]
Graves of Ahmadi Muslims have once again been desecrated and vandalised in a malicious and senseless attack by vigilantes’ elements in Kisran, Attock in Pakistan. The grievous attack took place in the middle of the night on 12th and 13th April 2024 the tombstones on two Ahmadiyya graves in the Ahmadiyya Cemetery were broken [...]
Persecution against an Ahmadi school owner in Lahore, Pakistan, has recently intensified due to the illegal distribution of separate voter lists by the government. The Pakistani Election Commission, in collaboration with local officials, has printed distinct voter lists for citizens belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith. This discriminatory tactic aims to expose and target [...]
New anti-Ahmadiyya targeting little children in Pakistan is going viral. This video is shocking because it shows the indoctrination of young children in Pakistan against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its founder. It shows the hatred and incitement of violence against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan is not just done by the mature adults of [...]
Recent incitement to violence and hatred against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has resulted in the death of an Ahmadi Muslim man in Haslipur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. On March 4, 2024, Tahir Iqbal, Local President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Bahawalpur, was shot twice and died immediately as a result of his injuries. He was [...]
Yet another violation of the Ahmadi Muslims’ human right to religious freedom occurred in Daska, Punjab Pakistan on 24th January 2024 at 10am, where the police desecrated the tombstones of Ahmadi graves. The International Human Rights Committee has reported several times that a wave of bigotry against Ahmadiyya Muslims intensified in 2023, and this [...]
A shocking video has emerged of a senior cleric of the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) party threatening to kill innocent Ahmadi Muslims.
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF IHRC/PR/260623/6 26 June 2023 PRESS RELEASE Ahmadi Muslims barred by law from celebrating Eid-ul-Adha in Pakistan Pakistani authorities have barred Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan from gathering for Eid-ul-Adha as Muslims worldwide commemorate the Islamic festival. In a grievous violation of basic human rights and religious freedom, circulars by the [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF IHRC/PR/220623/5 22 June 2023 PRESS RELEASE APPEASING EXTREMISM: GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH TEHREEK E LABBAIK, A WELL-KNOWN RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST ORGANISATION Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (the "TLP"), a well-known extremist religious organization, was banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 by the previous government due to their violent actions resulting [...]
Download PDF Two international human rights organizations called upon British authorities to deport visiting Bangladeshi Muslim cleric Enayetullah Abbasi, citing his history of death threats to Hindus, Christians, and Ahmadi Muslims and other minorities. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) and the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe (FOREF) say Abbasi’s violent rhetoric is “a direct [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF IHRC has taken grievous notice of an agonizing statement on social media denigrating the peaceful Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The video, which is circulating on social media platforms attempts to malign the community as 'disbelievers' and suggests they are posing as Muslims whilst in actual fact being disbelievers. "Qadiani (derogatory [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF The world is now fully aware that members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Bangladesh suffered horrific brutalities at the hands of terrorising extremist Muslim clergy who destroyed Ahmadiyya properties, killed Ahmadi youth, destroyed, and put on fire a large number of residential houses and business premises. During the [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF The International Human Right Committee (IHRC) is shocked to learn about the violent attack which took place on March 03 2023, at the inaugural day of the 98th annual convention of Ahmadi Muslims in Bangladesh, held at Ahmednagar, Panchagarh. Religious fanatics incited by extremist clerics attacked the convention as [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Wave of bigotry against Ahmadis has intensified since the start of this year. It is with grave concern that we inform you, that the Police in Adda, Tehsil Gojra, District Toba Tek Singh is forcing Ahmadis to demolish Minarets from their own Ahmadiyya Mosque by themselves. This Ahmadiyya Mosque [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Ahmadi graves have once again been desecrated and vandalised in a "malicious and senseless" attack by vigilantes’ elements in Pakistan. Persecution against Ahmadis has ramped up as of late, as the IHRC has reported almost daily incidents against the minority group. Graveyard vandalism has been a favoured tactic of [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Vandals have desecrated two minarets of an Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in Karachi, Pakistan. Three thugs entered the Mosque on Martin Road in Karachi, climbed up using a ladder, and desecrated two of its minarets. The upper portion of the minaret has been smashed to bits. The attackers left behind [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF IHRC/IR/031221/1 03 December 2021 INCIDENT REPORT PAKISTAN: MOB LYNCHES FACTORY MANAGER ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY; FURTHER PROOF OF DANGEROUS EFFECTS OF BLASPHEMY LAWS The export manager of a factory in Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province was killed by a mob on 3 December after he was accused of desecrating posters [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF IHRC/IR/091121/1 09 November 2021 INCIDENT REPORT THE NEVER ENDING PERSECUTION OF AHMADIS TAKES ANOTHER LIFE IN PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN It is with agonizing heart-rending grief that we come to you with the horrible news of the brutal target killing of an Ahmadi Mr. Kamran Ahmad in Peshawar, Pakistan. On November [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF (Kindly download the published PDF to view the Press Brief with all images) IHRC/IR/281021/1 28 October 2021 PRESS BRIEF SERVING THE NATION BECOMES A SIN FOR AHMADIS IN PAKISTAN Intolerance, hatred and bigotry towards Ahmadis is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan and in every walk of life we [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF IHRC/IR/110921/3 11 September 2021 INCIDENT REPORT ANOTHER AHMADIYYA MOSQUE DESECRATED AND AHMADI GRAVES DEVASTATED IN TALWANDI MUSA, DISTRICT GUJRANWALA, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN In past several months, we reported about the desecration and demolition of the minarets and domes of various Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan carried out under the supervision of [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF IHRC/IR/030921/2 03 September 2021 INCIDENT REPORT ANOTHER TARGET KILLING OF AN AHMADI IN CHAK #33 Dharowali, DISTRICT Nankana Sahib, Pakistan It is with agonizing heart-rending grief that we come to you with the horrible news of the brutal target killing of an Ahmadi Maqsood Ahmad Qamar, in Chak #33 [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF IHRC/PR/010921/1 01 September 2021 PRESS RELEASE Newly Appointed CEO Health Chakwal Removed For Being Ahmadi IN PAKISTAN Newly appointed CEO Health Chakwal Dr. Waseem Ahmed has been removed from his post, for being an Ahmadi. Dr. Waseem Ahmad was appointed as CEO Health, Chakwal on 20th of August [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF IHRC/PB/220821/6 22 August 2021 The Plight of Pakistani Ahmadis Pakistan is continuously claiming that all its religious minorities have equal rights of professing and propagating their religious beliefs and that State is jealousy protecting their lives and properties. As an independent observer, International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has serious [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF IHRC/JR/220821/4 22 August 2021 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST PAY ATTENTION STATE-SPONSORED PERSECUTION OF AHMADI MUSLIMS IN PAKISTAN AND WORLDWIDE JOINT RESOLUTION: On 13 July 2021(1), UN human rights experts have expressed their deep concern over the lack of attention to the serious human rights violations perpetrated against the Ahmadiyya Muslim [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF BLASPHEMY CHARGES AGAINST EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY IN PAKISTAN According to recent reports an eight-year-old Hindu boy in Bhong village in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab has been charged with blasphemy. This charge can carry a mandatory death penalty. Hindus constitute Pakistan’s largest non-Muslim minority, estimated at between two and four per [...]
Muhammad Naeem Chattha Qadri, a senior cleric belonging to the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) calls on his supporters to carry out attacks against pregnant Ahmadi Muslim mothers to “ensure that no new Ahmadis are born” and went on to say, “those babies who are being born, should be killed”. Throughout the speech, the cleric led [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF It is nauseating to let the world know that the government officials and the Police force in Pakistan have descended into such humiliating acts as desecrating the graves of Ahmadi Muslims. The Government sponsored persecution of Ahmadis is rampant and the life of Ahmadis is made hell by denying [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF Intolerance, hatred and bigotry towards Ahmadis is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan and in every walk of life we may observe the marginalisation of Ahmadis only because of their religious beliefs. Through this press brief we want to highlight a series of incidents of prejudice against Ahmadis across [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF From the start of the year 2021, we reported about the demolition of the minarets and domes of the various Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan carried out under the supervision of local police authorities. We again regret to report another destruction and demolition of an Ahmadiyya Mosque in a rural [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF Intolerance, hatred and bigotry towards Ahmadis is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan and in every walk of life we may observe the marginalisation of Ahmadis only because of their religious beliefs. Through this press release we want to highlight a fresh incident of prejudice against Ahmadis, which occurred [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF The persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan continues to intensify. Since January 2021, police authorities in Pakistan have been targeting mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. On June 24, 2021, at around 8:30 pm, police and senior government officials from Faisalabad attacked another Ahmadi Mosque in the village [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF SUMMARY: A few months ago, we reported about the demolition of the minarets and domes of the various Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan carried out under the supervision of local police authorities. Unfortunately, we again regret to report another destruction and demolition in a rural settlement called 261 R-B, Adhwali [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA) and rules made thereunder define the whole range of cybercrimes along with their punishment, set down the process of investigation and conduct of trial of cases before the designated court. The Ahmadiyya Community which is facing the brunt of state sponsored [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Two Christian nurses in Pakistan have been charged with blasphemy because one of them was accused of destroying a sticker on a notice which might have contained a Verse of the Holy Quran. Pakistan has statutes targeting people of other faiths and Muslim sects. Any person with a personal [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF We reported last month the demolition of the Minarets and domes of an Ahmadiyya Mosque in District Gujranwala, Pakistan carried out under the eyes of the local Police force. Today, unfortunately we come back to you with the report of the destruction and demolition of another Ahmadiyya Mosque in [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF We are gravely shocked to share with you an abhorrent shameful incident that took place in a rural settlement in District Gujranwala, Pakistan. On 17th March at about 12 noon, a contingent of Police force raided the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Garmolavirkan, District Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan and forcefully wiped off [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF RELENTLESS HARROWING ATTACKS ON AHMADIS IN PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN A trail of brutal attacks on Ahmadis in Peshawar have continued in recent months. Four Ahmadis have been killed and several face serious threats to their lives. In a traumatising incident, around midnight on 13 March, three Ahmadi households in the [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF With no state supervision, it is up to the individual schools to decide what to teach and preach as is clearly visible in a video (linked below) circulating on social media in which a teacher is brainwashing young students with extremist Islamic ideology. He quotes a tradition of Muhammad [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF No society can claim to be idealistically egalitarian as certain elements of every society always claim superiority over the others, either on ethnic, numerical or religious basis and try to usurp some rights of the weaker segments, but the governing forces of the societies usually play positive regulatory role [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Anti-Ahmadiyya video targeting little children is going viral to sow the seeds of hatred, fanaticism, and bigotry in the minds of innocent Pakistani children A new, anti-Ahmadiyya video targeting little children in Pakistan is going viral. The crude animated video is meant to sow the seeds of hatred, fanaticism [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF It is with agonizing heart-rending grief that we come to you with the horrible news of the murder of a medical assistant ABDUL QADIR working in the Clinic of Dr. Bin Yameen in the Bazid Khel area of Peshawar, Pakistan. On Thursday February 11 2021, at around 2 p.m. [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF For the last couple of years, the clerics and their followers in Pakistan have intensified their efforts in order to persecute Ahmadis and in this venture the law enforcement agencies and the Courts have become their allies. Cybercrime cases: Since 2019, four cases have been registered against Ahmadis in [...]
PRESS BRIEF - Download PDF In 2020, there is a sudden increase in acts of target killings and attempted murders of the members of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan. Most unfortunately, these ruthless killings have increased from July 2020 onwards. Following, inter alia, is a list of such incidents: On 27.02.2020, an eleven-year old [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF IHRC is horrified to bring to your notice the barbaric murder of a 31 year old Ahmadi doctor Tahir Ahmad. Dr Tahir along with his family was attending the Friday service in the private residence of a member of the community in 'Murh Balochan', District Nankana, Punjab, Pakistan. As [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF It is devastating for us to share this horrifying news with you that as a result of concerted hate campaigns against members of the Ahmadiyya community throughout Pakistan the mullahs and their accomplices are out campaigning and inciting people to kill Ahmadis without any restrain. Ahmadis, on account of [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Further to our most recent report about the situation of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan and the plan of extremist clerics to persecute them on the occasion of the upcoming Muslim festival of Eidul-Adha, there has been a new development today. The President of the Lahore High Court Bar Association, [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Like all the previous years the Mullahs (CLERGY) in Pakistan have once again started an intimidating campaign against Ahmadis of Pakistan with the object to force the Ahmadis not to sacrifice animals on Eidul-Adha as part of their religious practice. It has become a usual exercise that on every [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF Treating the dead and their graves with dignity is a primary human value. The clerics of Pakistan have lost all their humanity and are acting ruthlessly without any regard for the dead or the places of their burial. It is devastating to report that in a rural settlement, Chak [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF On April 30, 2020, an Ahmadi woman, Ramzan Bibi, who belonged to a village called Cheleki in the Nankana district was falsely accused of blasphemy against the Prophet of Islam, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and thus booked under section 295-C, which calls for a death [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a victim of state-sponsored persecution in Pakistan for the last many decades and a number of Ahmadis are prisoner of conscience for their religious beliefs. Recently, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority of the Pakistan Government has enacted new regulations that would extend the reach of Pakistan’s [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF The world community would be shocked to hear of the murder of another innocent Ahmadi, Mahboob Khan, brutally murdered in Peshawar, Pakistan, because of his faith and belief. Ahmadis are continuously being targeted in various cities of Pakistan and more recently in Peshawar while the Government of Pakistan has [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Algeria, have been persecuted and harassed particularly in the past few years. Recently, the Government has embarked on raiding the residences and meeting places of the Community and picking up the members accusing them of blasphemy, contempt of the Holy Quran and the [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Today, another heartbreaking murder of an Ahmadi Muslim took place in Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Naeem-ud-dine Khattak (PhD), a professsor at Superior Science College Peshawar, was on his way back home when some unknown men on a motorcycle opened fire at his car. He was shot multiple times, received 5 [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF On 2nd May 2020, an Ahmadiyya Missionary, Rohan Ahmad, stationed in Rabwah was visiting his parents in Lahore, to celebrate the Eid festival with them. His hopes of a happy reunion with the family turned into a horrible incident. Their home was raided, and he was arrested on the [...]
PRESS RELEASE - Download PDF With deep sorrow and sadness this is to inform you all that a dead body of a newborn of only three days of age was thrown out by a group of Muslim clerics from a grave just after a few hours of burial. This brutish act was committed because [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Mr Aziz Ahmed Tahir and a Dr Iftikhar Ahmad have been found dead near Fatehjang in Pakistan after they were kidnapped on 13thMarch. It is reported that both were forced to sign a stamp paper of land possession by the land caretaker of Dr Iftikhar. Dr Iftikhar is a [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Provincial Minister for Religious Affairs warns that he will personally strangle any Ahmadi Muslim who distributes a copy of the Holy Quran On 22nd January 2018 in a live Urdu current affairs show on Channel 24, the Chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council Mr Tahir Ashrafi demanded a ban [...]
INCIDENT REPORT - Download PDF Bigotry, hatred and extremist speech used by PML-N member in National Assembly 3 Ahmadis sentenced to death for blasphemy On 10 October 2017, Captain Safdar, (who is the former Prime Minister’s son-in-law), a member of the Pakistan National Assembly lashed out against the already persecuted Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. In [...]
On 3rd May 2017, another Ahmadi Muslim, Mr Basharat Ahmad from Khanpur, district Rahimyar Khan (Pakistan) was shot dead because of his faith. Mr Basharat Ahmad was on his way home from his petrol station, when unknown gunmen shot him at point blank range. He died on the spot. He was 62-year-old and has left his widow and 3 [...]
A member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — this time a woman, a retired assistant professor of molecular genetics at Punjab University — was found murdered in her house on 14th April 2017. Professor Tahira Malik was found dead at her residence on the premises of the university. Her throat had been slit. Officials from the local [...]
Today, on 7th April an Ahmadi Muslim Doctor, Mr Ashfaq Ahmad was killed in Sabzazar, Lahore. He was on his way to offer Friday prayers with his grandson and another person. When his car slowed down, a person wearing a helmet approached him on his bike and shot him. He died on the spot. The other 2 persons [...]
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