IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author): “Published information as to whether the police, the Jamaat-i-Islami, or its student wing, the Islami Jamiat-i-Tulab, are harassing Ahmadis in Karachi and in Lahore [PAK10587]”, Document #1356689

Published information as to whether the police, the Jamaat-i-Islami, or its student wing, the Islami Jamiat-i-Tulab, are harassing Ahmadis in Karachi and in Lahore [PAK10587]

Information on harassment of Ahmadis in Karachi and Lahore by the Jamaat-i-Islami or its student wing, the Islami Jamiat-i-Tulab, is currently not available to the IRBDC in Ottawa.

However, the attached Responses to Information Request PAK10416 of 4 March 1992 and PAK10351 of 19 February 1992 and their attachments may be noteworthy. In addition, please find attached a newsletter of 21 October 1991 published by the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam - Canada, which lists acts of harassment against Ahmadis, and excerpts of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Newsletter on the situation of Ahmadis in Pakistan. Finally, please refer to the Amnesty International report of September 1991, Pakistan - Violations of Human Rights of Ahmadis available at the Toronto II Documentation Centre (AI Index: ASA 33/15/91).

References

Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam Newsletter [Canada]. October 1991. "A Tale of Persecution," pp. 1-5.

Amnesty International. September 1991. "Pakistan: Violations of Human Rights of Ahmadis." (AI Index: ASA 33/15/91). London: Amnesty International.

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. 1991 [?]. State of Human Rights in Pakistan 1990. Lahore: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, pp. 75-79.

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Newsletter [Lahore]. January 1991. Vol. 2, No. 1. "Complaints from Ahmadiyya Community," p. 19

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Newsletter [Lahore]. April 1991. Vol. 2, No. 2. "Political Arrests, Minorities and Bonded Labour," pp. 12-13.

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Newsletter [Lahore]. April 1990. Vol. 1, No. 1. "Minorities - Violations Against Ahmadis Continue," p. 6

. April 1990. Vol. 1, No. 1. "Religious Intolerance - LHC Suspends Sentence," p. 7.

Immigration and Refugee Board Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 4 March 1992. Response to Information Request PAK10416.

_____. 19 February 1992. Response to Information Request PAK10351.

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