SIALKOT: The police in Bambanwala have registered a case against six people belonging to Ahmadiyya community for registering as Muslim voters in 2015 local bodies’ election. The case was registered after direction from the Lahore High Court (LHC) on the petition of one Mazhar Hammed. On May 21, 2017, two Ahmedis were sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Faisalabad under the Pakistan Penal Code’s (PPC) blasphemy laws. Since 1984, when the blasphemy laws were amended to include several Ahmedi-specific clauses, more than 250 Ahmedis have been killed, according to data collected by the community. There are about half a million Ahmedis in Pakistan, local leaders say, though other estimates have put the number at two-four million.

Source: Pakistan Today December 16, 2017 04:18 UTC