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of the Pakistan Penal Code for having written Kalima on the walls, thereby
hurting the feelings of Muslims: Mr. Syed Hamid-ul-Hassan Shah, Mr. Mahmud
Ahmad, Mr. Malik Inayat-ullah, Mr. Khwaja Muhammad Amin, Mr. Malik Nisan Ahmad
and Mr. Muhammad Yousaf. The men reportedly answered that the inscription had
been painted over by the police in 1986 but that heavy rains had taken off the
whitewash and made it visible.
On 29 August 1991, the body of Mr. Mubasher Ahmad Qadiani was ordered
exhumed and removed from the Muslim cemetery in Bahawalhagar by the District
Magistrate.
On 29 October 1991, Mr. Habibullah, a social security officer from
Shahdara town, Lahore, was accused of blasphemy by an opponent of the Ahmadi
faith, immediately arrested and charged under Section 295C of the Pakistan
Penal Code which carries the death penalty. Mr. Habibullah was reportedly
denied release on bail on 25 March 1992.
On 5 December 1991 and on 30 January 1992, the president of the Ahmadi
community in Dera Ghazi Khan, Mr. Khan Mohammad, and Mr. Rafiq Ahmad Naeem
were arrested and charged under Sections 295A, B and C for translating the
Koran into the Surayeke language. Both reportedly remain in detention.
On 9 January 1992, Mr. Chaudhry Munawar Ahmad, president of the Ahmadi
community in Jaranwala, Faisalabad district, and Mr. Rafiq Ahmad,
vice-president of the community, were arrested and charged with writing the
Kalima Tayyaba (Islamic creed) and calling the Azan (call to prayer).
On 25 January 1992, Dr. Javaid Akhtar, a medical doctor from Mari Allah
Bachaya village, Bahawalpur, was transferred to Rukanpur after two clergymen
had accused him of preaching the Ahmadi faith.
Mr. Abdul Latif Momin from the town of Bhakkar and his son, Abdul Qadeer,
were charged under Section 298C of the Pakistan Penal Code on 19 October 1991
for identifying themselves as Muslims on a college admission form. They were
reportedly each fined with 500 rupees. This fine was allegedly increased to
600 rupees when an adversary of theirs appealed the 500 rupee fine. The
verdict was only given in January 1992.
On 9 February 1992, an announcement reportedly appeared in the ’Jang’
daily newspaper in Lahore inviting applications for admission in a four-year
nursing course for girls at the General Nursing School in Sheikhupura. One of
the conditions for the candidates’ applying for the course was that they
should make a written statement that they do not belong to the Ahmadi faith.
The local clergymen in village chak 35 North in Sargodha district
reportedly filed a complaint against Mr. Malik Khuda Yar, the president of the
village Ahmadi community, Mr. Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Mr. Malik Abdul Aziz and
Mr. Malik Abdul Ghafoor after reportedly having heard that they intended to
build an Ahmadi place of worship. A number of non-Ahmadi villagers and the
village headman stated in court that they had no objections regarding such a
building. Although no action had been undertaken to start construction, the
four persons mentioned above were nevertheless each sentenced on 25 February
1992 to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 rupees.