Islamabad, June 7 (IANS) Three members of the Ahmadiyya community were injured after an unidentified assailant opened fire outside their place of worship in Chenab Nagar city of Pakistan’s Punjab province, local media reported on Sunday. The incident took place when three volunteers were doing security duty outside Al Aqsa worship place, according to the first information report (FIR) registered by the Chenab Nagar police, Pakistan’s daily Dawn reported.Al Aqsa is one of the largest and central …
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Islamabad, May 21 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation on Thursday wrote to the Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, expressing grave concerns over the structural and persistent discrimination, harassment and violence against the Ahmadiyya community in the province.In its letter to CM Maryam Nawaz, Amnesty International said that these violations routinely intensify in periods preceding and during major religious occasions, such as the upcoming Eid ul-Adha.The righ…
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) India on Friday sharply criticised the recent comments made by Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir during a meeting with senior Shia clerics of the country, in which he reportedly stated that those sympathetic to Iran should relocate there. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that such remarks reflects Pakistan’s long standing pattern of persecution against minorities, including the Shia comm…
Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) As Pakistan advocates against ‘Islamophobia’ abroad, the persistence of such conditions at home raises legitimate questions about the country’s credibility. The recurring claims of Islamophobia by Islamabad on the global stage, a report has cited, call for closer scrutiny, not unquestioned approval. According to a report in the European Times, the rhetoric of victimhood has become a diplomatic instrument, used to divert attention from Pakistan’s troubling record towa…