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Friday, August 22, 2025
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Topic: Ahmadis

Pakistanis are calling singer Aima Baig’s marriage with Ahmadi designer ‘illegal’

Zain Ahmed is an Ahmadi, a member of Pakistan’s most persecuted religious minority. He is the great-great-grandson of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the 19th-century founder of the Ahmadiyya movement. 

Ahmadiyyas in Kashmir are branded as kafirs, boycotted, spat at. They hide, pass as Sunnis

India recognises them as Muslims, but ‘other Muslims treat us like untouchables’.

TLP calls for violence against Ahmadis, Pakistanis want party banned

Last week, 27 Ahmadis were attacked by members of the radical religious party, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, in Punjab’s Bahawalnagar. Citizens are now calling for a ban on the party.

Pre-Partition Ahmadi mosque demolished by Maryam Nawaz govt. Pakistanis call it ‘religious tyranny’

The mosque was built by Sir Zafarullah Khan, an Ahmadi who was Pakistan’s first foreign minister and a key member of the All-India Muslim League.

Pakistan won’t allow non-Muslims to inherit land from Muslim. Lahore High Court cites Sharia

Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal retrospectively applied the provisions of Article 260(3) of Pakistan’s Constitution, which defines 'Muslim' and 'non-Muslim' for legal purposes.

Pakistani schools training students to lynch Ahmadis

The video, posted on the school's official Facebook page, shows students attacking an effigy. The caption reads 'Students expressing hatred towards those who falsely claim to be Prophets'.

Ahmadi mosque destroyed in Pakistan even as Imran Khan lectures India on minorities

The incident took place in Punjab’s Bahawalpur, where terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is headquartered.

I hope my film’s Netflix release makes Pakistanis see Abdus Salam beyond his Ahmadi faith

Nobel laureate Abdus Salam remains a controversial figure in Pakistan because of his Ahmadi faith. But now, my documentary will finally be seen where it matters most.

Is India in danger of becoming a Hindu Pakistan?

For the first time, India’s leaders have sought to redefine the country effectively as a home for South Asians that aren’t Muslims. 

Pakistan’s first Nobel winner was shunned for being Ahmadi. A documentary brings him back

Dr Abdus Salam won the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics. But in his home country Pakistan, he is all but forgotten because of his religious affiliation.

On Camera

Banning RMGs could end up like Bihar’s prohibition. Poor will suffer most

India should build on regulatory architecture instead of driving consumers into the shadows. The real choice is not between prohibition and inaction, but between regulation and chaos.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?