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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]