If your children can not compete with the brilliant Ahmadis, excommunicate them so they will not take the top 50% of seats in the medical/ engineering colleges and your mediocre children will get the chance. Especially when that label relegates the labelled party to a dysfunctional, persecuted class of citizenship? Parliament of a country does not have right to declare someone's religion one way or the other. All views are perfectly written by a neutral mind. How do you know he lacks in theological issues? Look at the condition of Pakistan, a ditch in which these close minded people are buried, and they will stay there because of their mentality. or demagogue right wing politicians. Like Shia and Sunny ,In Hindu religion basically have two sectors one is called Vaishnav ( Followers of Vishnu...Ram...Krishna) and Shaiva. If Italy declares that all non-Catholics in their are not Christians, then what is the meaning of this legislation. 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Bravo. Now that Qadianis have been declared non-Muslim minority by constitutional amendment it is no use harping on the same string and crying over spilt milk. I believe there is a name discrepancy in your article. Iqbal (left) takes a walk with prominent Ahmadiyya leader in the Muslim League, Zafarullah Khan, in London. For a person who himself claims to not know much about religion,how come your every article is based on it? - The Indian Muslims from UP and Bihar - whose grand kids born i Pakistan are still called muhajir And it was just the start of never ending demands of guardian of Islam. However, he did say that belief in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as Promised Messiah is necessary for believers in this age - this was his main difference from the other 'Lahori branch' of Ahmadis. The consequences of that decision let loose smuggling and bootlegging in the country and turned it into a multi-billion rupee illegal business. If you understand terms like IJMA, you ought to know the IJMA on this issue. No untoward incident was reported apart from the slogan-chanting and cursing. Nadeem F. Paracha is a cultural critic and senior columnist for Dawn Newspaper and Dawn.com. A collage of Urdu newspapers (all dated Sept 8, 1974) with headlines announcing the excommunication of the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. Long live Pakistan( not Al-Bakistan) :). While pan-Islamism was the obvious theme of the 1974 Lahore Summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a strong subtext was 'Islamic Socialism', with Bhutto, Gaddafi, Algeria's Houari Boumedienne, Syria's Hafez al-Assad and PLO's Yasser Arafat leading that pack. I wonder: Is a muslim in Pakistan better off than a muslim in India, where a muslim has been President, Vice-President, Chief Justice, Chief of Air Force, Chief of Intelligence, Nuclear Scientist, Governor, Federal and State Minister, etc! However Ahmadi leader, Mirza Nasir Ahmad, was quite clear that the final determinant of who is a Muslim and who is not is a question that is best left to God and that on a community level in a secular sense, the definition of Muslim should be whoever describes himself a Muslim and says the Kalima. You and all of your readers can certify this by reading any official Ahmadi literature which you can find on ***http://www.alislam.org***. It is the oldest journal on International Relations in South Asia. After all, constitutional amendments do not happen unintentionally. Awan Saheb - if you want to know the truth then every Saturday watch the debate on this National Assembly session on Ahmadiyya Muslim TV(MTA). Don;t care for any of the "corrupt to the bone" political parties in this country, however ZAB; Next you should throw light on the debate in the National Assembly - this will clarify who's who and how far the Ulema have wisdom. another deep and excellent piece from Paracha, undoubtedly he is now a national asset. It is just an attempt to bring to light certain events that culminated in the relegation of the Ahmadiyya community. As the 19th century reformist movements competed among themselves to gather and organise the Muslim community in India, they often clashed with each other and in their polemical publications and literature denounced their counterparts as either being ‘bad Muslims’ (fakir) or outright heretics/infidels (kafir). Call it what you will, but Bhutto sacrificed the Ahmadiya community for political gains / survival, batering the future of that community for saving his "gaddi" - not the first time a politician has done this, and surely not the actions of a statesman or the actions of a man of strong moral fibre. All Ahmadis are not from Qadian then why use it instead of using Ahmadi.? Where the executive, the judiciary, and the legislature will function according to the principles of checks and balances. In 1951, three years after the creation of Pakistan, due to a failed ‘communist coup’ attempt by some left-wing military men in league with the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and a group of progressive intellectuals, the government initiated an intense crackdown and bans against left-leaning officers in the military, the CPP and affiliated trade, student and labour unions. b) calling someone kafir and making laws against them are two completely different issues; one is OK the other is a violation of their human rights. I believe it is a combined lack of moral courage and negligence of the silent majority of our nation which is enabling and strengthening the religious extremists to be more vicious with Ahmadis and other minorities. Ahmadis believe in Khatame Nabuwat. Therefore it is we people who inject this into the minds of our children that they are different or some times superior from others. Well, He might not be willing to go against Ahamdis, but the bottom line is: he did it. No one is bothered by Pakistan's law. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. To access this article, please, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Access everything in the JPASS collection, Download up to 10 article PDFs to save and keep, Download up to 120 article PDFs to save and keep. I think, ur experince may be equal to my age but don't try to intesify the situation. Jo mai bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho. Should we begin a systematic (rather Hitler-esque) cleansing whereby only one group then remains as the 'true' representation of Islam? He should've let them fight each other in their squalid seminaries but instead they were honored and allowed to desecrate country's paramount public institution. The people of both countries desire this rapprochement since the 1974 OIC Conference in Lahore but many setbacks hindered the process to come into being. After the June 14 strike, Bhutto allowed the issue to be discussed in the assembly and told the press that his party members in the House were free to vote on the issue according to their individual conscience. Ten Year Plan was announced by OIC Conference in? I had no idea Mr. Bhutto was a personal friend of yours. He announced to Christians awaiting the second coming of Jesus, Muslims anticipating the Mahdi, Hindus expecting Krishna, and Buddhists searching for Buddha, that he was the promised messiah for them all, commissioned by God to rejuvenate true faith. Pakistan Horizon is the flagship quarterly journal of the Institute. The real test of Muslims is to be able to tell the truth without fear or favour. In my opinion, it requires and I request you to follow it up in the same pattern of articles you have written by the name of. @Akram: Mr NFP, you say constitutionally relegating the Qadiani's to non-Muslim status is an act of sectarian and religious monstrosity. The Second Islamic Summit Conference held from February 22-24, 1974 in Lahore was hosted by Pakistan and came to be known as the Lahore Summit. (a) Madina (b) Makkah (c) Jeddah (d) Riaz. Elections 70, led to a situation where Bhutto would have to give up power and allow Sheikh Mujib to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan, but that was not acceptable to Bhutto. A fight ensued and 30 IJT men were severely beaten for insulting the religious sentiments of the Ahmadiyya. But I believe panning Bhutto for introducing legislative and constitutional expressions of bigotry has become too much of a cliché. You decide which approach is correct. Request Permissions. These were all misconceptions spread against us. We need more people like you for resurrection of the NATION NOT MULLAS Though it was in camera but now reports are coming out which tells the sadder part of these Ulema, aoa, Mr. Paracha. All Rights Reserved. Well i must say it is a well written article. A very well researched article. But his ‘victory’ was short-lived. he was a basically communalist politician rather than a secularist one as he is often dishonestly portrayed as. Echoing the dream of the poet-philosopher the Muslim leaders declared: It’s become a somewhat knee-jerk reaction, and an exercise in which the details of the 1974 event have gotten lost and ignored in the excitement of repeatedly pointing out the starling irony of a left-liberal government passing a controversial theological edict. Look Ahmadis were thrown out of Pakistani Islam and what the community is doing in the whole world - they have set the real impression of Islam and character in world. The Clerics did not do it for the first time in the Islamic History. 3. During the same period (1977), ZAB also introduced prohibition and closed all bars and consumption of alcohol by Muslims to please the mullahs. Then, when the riots escalated, Bhutto gave the Punjab CM the green signal to use force to quell the riots. A highly informative article by NFP --- at the same time, an excellent portrayal of 'Islamic intolerance"! Excellent article. With 36... THAT Earth’s ecosystems are in a race against time is well known. So every bad thing Bhutto did was under pressure otherwise he was an angel. Also I think Jamaat Ahmediyya's role to convince Jinnah to comeback to India and lead muslims should have been highlighted, While Iqbal's differences arose due to political differences arising out of heading Kashmir Committee , this is also part of history. They demanded that Ahmadiyya members be removed from the bureaucracy and the government; Ahmadiyya youth outfits be disarmed; and that Rabwa be declared an open city because it had become ‘a state within a state.’. May be one day Pakistani clerics & politicians would start issuing certificate of faith to resolve any confusion & debate as to who is a Muslim & what constitutes a non-Muslim. However, he was good at cashing his charismatic personality and playing with the psychology of common people through his sensational speeches. They told him that the constitution had declared Pakistan as an Islamic Republic so how could he claim that a religious issue had no place in the National Assembly? However, this does not exonerate Bhutto who set the wheels in motion for the persecution of Ahmaddiya community, sowed the seeds for religious interference in political matters and encouraged extremist groups to occupy a place in the political landscape and influence social mood and thinking. I think he tried to make everybody happy but failed, and ended up at the Gallows. Bhutto or religious leader can not be always right or always wrong like NFP can not be always right or always wrong. This is a person who developed the Islamic bomb: In 1984, the Zia dictatorship further consolidated the state of Pakistan’s stand against the Ahmadiyya by issuing an ordinance (Ordinance XX) which prohibited the Ahmadiyya from preaching or professing their beliefs. Well researched article. A great article. A religious gathering of the Ahmadiyya in Rabwa in the 1960s. He said now was not the right time. Where "God" not the "state" will have the power to judge who is a better and a true Muslim. But the message of the article that is : don't mix religion and politics. Don't make him a Hero, don't forget that he was hanged for his bad deeds. With Bengalis separated and Ahmadiyyas suppressed, today's Pakistan created another minority, the Shias, to kick around. He was the second Khalifa of the Ahmadi community. He accused the opposition of being ‘hell-bent on destroying the country.’. It features articles related to Pakistan’s foreign policy, regional and global issues, women’s concerns in international relations, IR theory, terrorism and security studies and emerging environmental concerns. We consider them non Ahmadi Muslims. However, as members of the OIC group gathered in Lahore, several heads of the state from the Arab world put pressure on Pakistan's then prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, to invite Sheikh Mujibur Rehmanto attend. Moghul Emperors did not feel the need of Pakistan. When was second OIC Summit Conference held? Very well written. It always gets you - whether you are a ZAB or a ZUH. Faheem. Better study Ahmadiyyat and you will see more to decide yourself. Confessing to any belief system is between the person and his God. @Yousaf: When it comes to Bhutto and Zia, both met their fate, they deserved. Nepal to get 500,000 doses of Covid vaccine from China under grant assistance This further split the movement, with the so-called ‘Qadianis’ sticking to Mirza Muhammad Ahmad’s assertions and the ‘Lahori’ faction denouncing him and accusing him of inferring something that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had not claimed. They reminded him of the constitution all the political parties had approved only a year ago (1973). Yes. 15. Bhutto could have guided us to development and prosperity but instead opened the slide down the dark ages. May be most of the population would like to lump together all Hindu's as one notwithstanding the varied and diverse caste system that exists over and above the geographical and linguistic differences. The protests turned violent and spread across various cities of the Punjab. Nadeem, another aspect you need to write about is outside interference that has lead to many of Pakistan's current problems. Events that seem to have gotten buried underneath the thick layers of polemical theological diatribes exchanged between orthodox Muslim scholars and those associated with the Ahmadiyya community; and also due to the somewhat intellectual laziness of the secular intelligentsia that has exhibited a rather myopic understanding and judgment of and on Bhutto’s role in the episode. Interestingly, the more conservative sections of all three sects in the region vehemently criticised the modernist/rationalist reformist Muslim movements of the time led by scholars such as Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Syed Ameer Ali. I believe it was a test of his leadership skills and principles if he had any, and he failed. The Deobandi's? This is much better than the satirical articles he regularly posts. On logic and reason - you cannot beat Ahmadis - they are excommunicated in Pakistan but they are making progress with every passing day in the outside world. Here is a post regarding General Knowledge about OIC. With the ever-increasing problem of religious bigotry and violence that Pakistan has been facing ever since the 1980s, many intellectuals, authors and political historians in the country have blamed the Bhutto government’s 1974 act of constitutionally redefining the status of the Ahmadiyya, formerly recognised as a Muslim sect, as the starting point of what began to mutate into a sectarian and religious monstrosity in the next three decades. Pakistan delegation to the 2nd Islamic Summit, Lahore 1974 Foreign Minister Aziz Ahmed, Special Assistant to Prime minister for Information Yousuf Buch, Ambassador Niaz A Naik and Secretary General Finance A G N Kazi As Chief Minister of Punjab, Daultana was being criticised for the rising rate of unemployment and food shortages in the province. Dear NFP, I am happy to read this article and it does enhance my understanding of culture and history and belief's. "With the ever-increasing problem of religious bigotry and violence that Pakistan has been facing ever since the 1980s, many intellectuals, authors and political historians in the country have blamed the Bhutto government. The 1974 amendment was the darkest chapter in our constitutional history. Mirza Bashir ud Din Mahmud Ahmad, the Second Successor (Khalifa tul Masih 2) did not make any changes to the basic tenets of Ahmadiyya or the claims of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (alai hissalam ). Is judicial tolerance due to the fact that the judiciary is dependent on the state? Mr. Bhutto later hurled a threat that he would break the legs of any MNA from West Pakistan who dared to attend the Dhaka session of the Assembly and would not let such MNAs return to Pakistan. Pakistan Horizon And tragicaly we disowned some of our valuable assets.. NFP keeps on presenting the truth in the society, which hates it. The religious parties disagreed. He gave in - to solidify his hold on power. Ahmadis are currently in 204 countries (out of 234 in total including autonomous territories). is is possible if i can lay may hands on one copy of this report mentioned at the last page. ‘Someone wanted this to happen,’ he said, without saying who that someone was. Unlike Jinnah, Bhutto - tragically - did not have the constitution and internal strength to stand up to the Mullahs. The same Ulema who joined to issue Fatwa of excommunication of Ahmadis are now issuing fatwas against Shias, Deobandis, Barelvis, Qadris and all the others. @Tahira: There should be an Urdu version of this for the benefit of the masses. Jo manzar bhi hai nazir bhi Thumbs Up. Lets hope one day we'll have Pakistan where followers of various sects could practice side by side in perfect harmony. The PPP is more honest about all of this than some of its liberal fans who are reluctant to sacrifice their politics for their liberalism. Even declaration of Ahmedis as non muslims and killing of Bhutto could not make it any better, so we are out for something more insulting and disgusting. @Asad: Its leaders, not just Babar Awan types but also the Shehla Razas, own the 'achievement' equally proudly. Salafi's? NFP can well be called Arun Shourie of Pakistan. On May 22, 1974, some 160 members of the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba (IJT — the student of the Jamaat-i-Islami), boarded a train headed for Peshawar in the former NWFP. Shia ulema were also active in the movement. On Bhutto’s orders, one of his ministers, Kausar Niazi, led a government delegation that held a series of meetings with the ulema belonging to Sunni (both Deobandi and Barelvi) sub-sects, and the Shia sect. No doubt, Ahmadis bill was passed by bhutto but this was with the consent of religious scholars.writing on these topics do not show the intellengentia but we must focus over sectarian killing and try to bow the heads of those rulers who are trying to divide Ummah. 12th Summit will be in 2011 in Egyptian city of Cairo. NFP you forgot to mention the role of PETRO DOLLARS in your article which have been hurting us more than any other country on this planet. Thats the main point there are 2 sects of Ahmediyas which is hardly known by any any one in Pakistan. Lekhram, Batalvi, Dr. Clarke are some notable names that come to mind. You can access it online. Although the writer has done a good job, but I think he could have made it more informative and beneficial for the people of Pakistan and the world by doing more research on Ahmadis' remarkable services/contributions for Pakistan, Islam and the world. Opposition parties and clerics again threatened to take to the streets to force the government to introduce the suggested bill. As the train stopped at Rabwa, IJT students got out and began to raise slogans against the Ahmadiyya and cursed the community’s spiritual figurehead, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. ©2000-2021 ITHAKA. Would it be possible for Mr. Nadeem to comment on the following extract and its authenticity: You have to listen to the people who are paying you whether it is in your interests or not. It is the most dangerous/tumultuous piece of land on the earth. Thus, like this I bacame Eisa ibne Maryam." The accusations began piling up in earnest from 1915 onward and by the 1940s the orthodox ulema began to pressurise Muslim leadership in India to address the ‘Ahmadiyya question.’.
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