Laws against Ahmadis
LONDON:
This is with reference to Fasi Zaka’s article “I never really cared for Ahmadis” (June 15). There is no doubt that all religious minorities in Pakistan suffer, but not a single one of them has constitutional laws directed against them, and an insulting and hurtful column in the state’s ID card and passport applications. On a side note, I think it’s quite unfair to call Ahmadis ’secretive’. Some may be, out of fear of their lives, but many are not. I myself told everyone openly, happily, and proudly that I’m an Ahmadi at school/college and university.
Published in the Express Tribune, June 16th, 2010.
This is with reference to Fasi Zaka’s article “I never really cared for Ahmadis” (June 15). There is no doubt that all religious minorities in Pakistan suffer, but not a single one of them has constitutional laws directed against them, and an insulting and hurtful column in the state’s ID card and passport applications. On a side note, I think it’s quite unfair to call Ahmadis ’secretive’. Some may be, out of fear of their lives, but many are not. I myself told everyone openly, happily, and proudly that I’m an Ahmadi at school/college and university.
Published in the Express Tribune, June 16th, 2010.