Friday, May 15, 2015

Pakistan: April saw 17 Anti-Ahmadi rallies & conferences by extremist elements throughout Punjab

The month of April saw at least 17 anti-Ahmadiyya rallies, seminars and conferences held by 9 separate extremist groups in 11 different town and cities of the Punjab province in Pakistan.

Nearly all of the organizations involved in anti-Ahmadi hate campaigns are known to be patronized by the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz, the ruling political party both in the Punjab, and at the federal level. 

Apparently, according to a report distributed by the Asian Human Rights Commission, the government's newly announced National Action Plan (NAP) against extremist religious elements was essentially run in parallel to the anti-Ahmadi sectarian hate activism by many extremist clerics belonging primarily to Khatima-e Nubuwwat organization and the united Pakistan Clerics Council.

The report entitled "Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan - News Report April 2015," also listed several seminaries (madrasas), including Jamia Ashrafia, Jamia Rahimia, Jamia Usmania, and Jamia Islamia, that held conferences and seminars inciting agitation against the Ahmadiyya community. The list of events and organizations is not complete, the report said.


"In these conferences etc.," the report says, "all was said at full throat that the NAP aims at discouraging."

"Obviously mullas are using the themes of Khatme Nabuwwat, Blasphemy, Shariah Rule etc. to indulge in sectarian and religious extremism that breeds terrorism eventually," it was asserted.

The report authors complained that the authorities look the other when such activism is carried on. "This sort of attitude and policy led to extensive riots, fall of the provincial and the central governments and the imposition of first ever martial law in the country. It happened in 1953."

In Rabwah, a town with ninety-five percent Ahmadi population, Ahmadi are not permitted to hold any religious conference in their town. On the other hand the Punjab government allows ant-Ahmadi hostile groups to hold rallies and conferences every year.

"This goes on even after the implementation of the NAP," the report said.

http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.com/2015/05/pakistan-april-saw-17-anti-ahmadi.html

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