Additional information to Response to Information Request PAK4347 of 2 March 1990 on the current treatment of the Ahmadis in the city of Lahore (Punjab) [PAK11986]
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1991 states
that [i]n May [1991] the advocate general of Punjab argued that
parents who raise their children as Ahmadis are inciting their
children to apostasy and are punishable by law as committing a
capital crime. The Lahore High Court upheld the Government's
prohibition of the centenary celebration of the Ahmadi sect, which
was scheduled to be held in Rabwah in March, 1989, claiming the
celebration would have caused public disorder (1992,
1559-1560).
Attached please find Response to Information Request PAK10351 of
19 February 1992, which refers to the treatment of the Ahmadis in
Lahore.
Additional information on the above subject is currently
unavailable to the DIRB.
Reference
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1991. 1992. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
Attachment
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 19 February 1992. Response to
Information Request PAK10351.