February 01, 2012 
VirtualMosque 
Indians, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, must learn from the sectarian developments in Pakistan, and make every effort to stop any expression of sectarian prejudice in public contexts. A few days back a small headline in the Urdu daily Munsif (Hyderabad)
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Blasphemy Law, Apa Nisar Fatima and Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
Apa Nisar Fatima – the Jamaat e Islami legislator and mother to Ahsan Iqbal – sitting MNA from PML-N moved in 1986 the law that became known as Blasphemy Law. She then went to the Federal Shariat Court and got
For minorities in Pakistan, persecution never ends
In a gruesome incident late Saturday night, 29 graves in an Ahmadi graveyard were desecrated in Dunyapur, district Lodhran, around 100 kilometres away from Multan. The community’s spokesperson Saleemuddin told The Express Tribune that unidentified people entered the graveyard and
The Ugly Face of Sunnis
“Consider us Pakistanis first and then Hindus,” said a member of the minority community during a press conference organised by 15 NGOs at the Karachi Press Club to condemn the recent killings of three Hindu doctors in Shikarpur. Representatives of
PAKISTAN: A senior surgeon belonging to the Ahmadi sect is abducted with his son and remains missing
A senior surgeon belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam has been missing since October 30, 2011. He was traveling in a car with his son of eleven years. The car was found abandoned far away from his home. Dr.
Ahmadi Community of Pakistan Fearful following Agitation by Banned Islamist Group
Rabia Saleem, a female student of the Ahmadi religious sect in the final year of studies at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Lahore, Pakistan, has been expelled on allegations of blasphemy. Saleem was accused of blasphemy by the
Death by drone is swift and efficient – it’s also murder
I took the Letters page of this newspaper to confirm my instinctive reaction when I heard that the US government had assassinated Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading figure in al-Qa’ida, in Yemen. The Americans had sent two Predator drones to the
London mosque accused of links to ‘terror’ in Pakistan
A south London mosque is at the centre of allegations it helped promote of acts of terror and hate in Pakistan. Leaflets circulating in Pakistan calling for the murder of members of the Ahmadi Muslim sect directed readers to a
[Video] A Day of Shame
A day of Shame: 7th September 1974 is celebrated in Pakistan as a great day – a day of great achievement. And what was that achievement? It was on this day that the National Assembly of Pakistan whose building was
[Video] Islam and Terrorism
The world seems to have double standards; those which apply to Muslims and those which apply to the rest. If US drone attacks kill the innocent in Pakistan it is collateral damage but if a Muslim bomb kills innocent people
