A representative of the Ahmadi community in Toronto provided the
following information during a telephone interview on 28 January
1992.
Several Ahmadi mosques have been burnt down, destroyed or taken
over by the "mobs." Currently, there are 5,000 to 6,000 Ahmadi
mosques in Pakistan both in cities and villages. In each major
city, such as Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Gujrat and
Peshawar, there are at least four Ahmadi mosques. In Islamabad,
there is only one mosque which is half-built as the Pakistani High
Court revoked the building permit of the mosque when it was being
built about 20 years ago. Since then, the Pakistani government has
refused to provide the Ahmadi community with a building permit to
complete it. However, this half-built mosque is used by the
Ahmadis. There are "some" prayer centres in Islamabad as well.
According to the attached Response to Information Request No.
PAK3114 there are approximately ten Ahmadi mosques in Karachi; and
there are at least two Ahmadi mosques in Rabwah.
According to the
World Directory of Minorities there is at
least one Ahmadi mosque in Sahiwal (1989, 290).
Additional information on the subject is currently unavailable to
the IRBDC.
Bibliography
Ahmadi Community Centre, Toronto. 28
January 1992. Telephone Interview with Representative.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 27 November 1989. Response to
Information Request No. PAK3114.
World Directory of Minorities.
1989. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited.
Attachments
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 27 November 1989. Response to
Information Request No. PAK3114.
World Directory of Minorities.
1989. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited, pp. 289, 290.