The complainant said he had evidence against accused. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
A judicial magistrate on Saturday dismissed the post-arrest bail application of a doctor accused of preaching Ahmedi doctrines and distributing books containing derogatory remarks against prophets.
Dr Masood Ahmed had filed a post-arrest bail stating he had nothing to do with the matter.
Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, counsel for the complainant, said his client could produce audiovisual evidence to prove his allegations against Dr Ahmed.
Chaudhry said the respondent had preached Ahmedi doctrine to his client and given him books that blasphemed against prophets.
The magistrate observed that Dr Ahmed had been nominated in the FIR with a specific role. The witnesses’ statements also supported the prosecution’s case, he said. The books in question had been seized by the police. Prima facie, sufficient evidence was available to connect Dr Ahmed with the offence, he said and dismissed the application.
Maulana Muhammad Ehsan had filed a complaint against Ahmed with the Old Anarkali police. According to the FIR registered under Section 298-C, Ehsan had visited Dr Ahmed’s clinic with a few friends.
Ehsan said Dr Ahmed preached the Ahmedi doctrine to them and gave them some books that contained derogatory comments about certain prophets. Ehsan said he had audiovisual evidence to support his claims. He and his friends had called police who arrested Dr Ahmed and seized the books.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2013.
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Nah! such things cannot happen in the Religion of Peace. Don't you realize killing one 'innocent muslim' is the equivalent of killing whole humanity.
@Aysha M:
"Starting with hating Ahmedis, then onto hating shias and next thing sunni factions hating and killing each other, there is no end to this madness in sight, unless 1974 legislation is repealed"
It goes deeper than the 1974 legislation. The bigotry started a long time before 1947 when Muslims concluded they can't live with Hindus as part of the two-nation theory.
I am sorry to point this out to you, but isn't ironic that Ahmedis (also Shias and Christians) were at the forefront to demand the creation of Pakistan since they thought they could not live with Hindus? The moral is one reaps what one sows.
@Aysha M: was Mr Jinnah an authority on muslim law? if he wasn't then he was simply blowing in the wind. Besides, it is not the Government business to certify the muslimness of the people.
Rex Minor
The land of pure fanatics.
This level of fanaticism means the depletion of argument. When you use ruthless forces to shut people's voice and not being able to listen to their opinions or talk, what do call it? Isn't this some sort of dictation? Where is suo motu?
@Arzoo: Thanks, for putting the date right, where I read it, it was given as 5th May 1944.
Nations once led down the hate path never fully recover. You have every right not to take oath of allegiance if you are not convinced of his claim, but why hate him and document your hatred, why not simply ignore.
People played and prayed together until the clerics ran amok and legislators caved in. In 1974 religion was brought into public domain. Unprecedented and unparalleled in the history of modern legislation, faith of the citizens of Pakistan was identified by national assembly proceedings. Once the state took on the responsibility of categorizing muslims and non-muslims. The toxic clergy went on to identify citizens of Pakistan as the-right-kind of muslims and not-the-right-kind of muslims and of course the natural progression was to decide the fate of the not-the-right-kind of muslims, hence killers made out of ordinary people.
Starting with hating Ahmedis, then onto hating shias and next thing sunni factions hating and killing each other, there is no end to this madness in sight, unless 1974 legislation is repealed
@LoyalPaki:
Are you crazy? Preaching one's religion is a fundamental right. What good is religion if it cannot be preached?
@Rocketter: Each sect calls the other sect non muslim - that is the greatest downfall in Pakistan. if one says the kalima he is muslim. You have no right to decide only Allah has. Fear Allah and refrain from such practices
It is just like preaching Hinduism in Pakistan and misguiding the illiterate. Open your eyes and seek the correct path.
@Rocketter: There are close to 2 million Pakistani Hindus. One of them, Swami Kaljug Anand Sahib, a close friend of my father, was a regular visitor to our house in Karachi while I was growing up as a child. I do not remember him trying to 'preach' anything to anyone, though he was a scholar of Hinduism and belonged to a movement called: "Arya Samaji." My father was an observant Muslim who prayed all his obligatory prayers at the mosque, not at home.
So what are you trying to say: people of faiths other than ours are not free to preach what they believe????? I do not think that the problem in Pakistan is to "misguide the illiterate" as you have said, but how to guide the literate.
My humble advice to Ahmadis is that they should fully understand the implication of the constitutional amendments of 7th September,1974 and 27th April, 1984 and the laws codified thereon. They better forget about constitutional provisions that guarantee fundamental rights and not indulge in wishful thinking about getting these rights either from the executive or judiciary.
@Aysha M: "On 5 May, 1944, in response to demands of the orthodox vis a vis Ahmadis, Jinnah made it absolutely clear that anyone who professes to be a Muslim is a Muslim and welcome in the Muslim League and that those who were raising the issue were trying to divide the Muslims"
Thank you Aysha for pointing this out. It was actually in Srinagar, Kashmir on 23rd of May, 1944 when the Quaid said what you have stated and his exact words were: `What right have I to declare a person non-Muslim, when he claims to be a Muslim’.
Problem is that where Pakistan has reached today Pakistanis would be trying to kill Jinnah himself for being a Shia. I wish I knew something to suggest to pull our people out of the depth they have reached today.
@Rocketter: Whether they are Muslims or not, why should they be prohibited from saying so? Is it going to hurt anybody?
If the people do not know, or if some have chosen not to remember, I would like to point out that our first Foreign Minister was Sir Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, who drafted the Pakistan Resolution, and was already known at the time of being a prominent scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. For the outstanding service he provided representing Pakistan, he was chosen not only as the President of the UN General Assembly, but also as the President of the International Court of Justice. If the intention of the Pakistanis was to declare the Ahmedis as non-Muslims, I am sure that the Quaid would not have chosen him to be his first Foreign Minister. Also, had the Ahmedis known what was to come, they would not have committed the folly to migrate to Pakistan. It's time for Pakistanis to ponder how far they have moved from the objectives of the Pakistan Movement and what they have done to the country envisioned by millions of Muslims of the Indian sub-continent.
@LoyalPaki: Why not?it is only your right to preach your faith every where in world!
This is the best and easiest solution to put restriction legally where it is hard to argue logically, ethically or religiously. I don’t know why fascism is being used in negative connotation where as it is the only option an inept has.
@Maestro: I agree with you, but Ahmadis should also refrain from preaching their beliefs to others.
Those who cannot give religious rights to others should stop begging any religious freedom anywhere in world.
Para 5 of the 'Objectives Resolution', which now is a part of our constitution states: Adequate provision shall be made for the minorities to freely profess and practice their religions and develop their cultures. Is it time to revisit our Objectives or our intolerances?
There you go again. Welcome to Pakistan the bastion and champion for Muslims, the land that was created for the welfare and religious freedom of the Muslims of India. The two nation theory is a grand success and is still in action.