The Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya was declared a non-Muslim minority in 1973. The promulgation of the 1984 Ordinance XX practically proscribed the community. In Pakistan, widespread Anti-Ahmadi persecution enjoys legal and social sanction.
Just last Friday, a sixty-year-old Ahmadi man was stabbed to death by a religious fanatic in Chenab Nagar.
Sixty-year-old Ahmadi Naseer Ahmad was waiting at the Chenab Nagar Bus Stop when Shahzad Hassan forced him to raise slogans in praise of deceased TLP supremo Khadim Rizvi. He also asked the deceased to chant “Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah’! He attacked Naseer soon after.
Hassan was overpowered at the spot and handed over to police. In a statement, the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya (JA) said Ahmad had no personal rivalry with anybody. He was simply killed for being Ahmadi, the JA said.
In early August, a Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader had called for the eviction of Ahmadis from the district of Khushab, saying that the state should withdraw its security from the highly persecuted community.
