Information on the numbers and locations of Ahmadi mosques in Pakistan [PAK10183]

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.

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