E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 54 Other cases reported to the Special Rapporteur in which persons belonging to the Ahmadi minority are alleged to have been persecuted are described below: On 20 July 1992, after the death and burial of a prominent Ahmadi esteemed by all the members of his village, a mullah allegedly came five days later and demanded that the dead man be exhumed. The villagers protested and won their case, after the district judge discovered that the five signatures collected by the mullah for carrying out his design had been obtained by threats. On 29 July 1992, a lawyer, Ateeq Ahmad Bajwa, amir of his district in Vihari, allegedly used Islamic expressions referring to the Prophet Muhammad in statements made during a press conference and again before the Bar Association. He was denounced to the police by a neighbour and, after obtaining bail, he was thrown into prison in Multan. In the village of Nasirabad, in the district of Muzaffargarh, the members of the Ahmadi minority were allegedly attacked by opponents. After being berated by the police who came to the rescue, the opponents resumed their attacks against the Ahmadis with even greater force, beating and robbing some of them. Others left the scene and took refuge in neighbouring villages, fearing denunciation by their neighbours or arrest on false grounds. For the ninth consecutive year, the celebration of the ’Jalsa Salana’, which is the assembly established more than 100 years ago by the founder of the Ahmadi movement, was allegedly forbidden by the Pakistan authorities. Starting from January 1993, 104 members of the Ahmadi minority, most sentenced to life imprisonment under section 298 C of the Pakistan Penal Code for having used certain traditional Islamic inscriptions on the walls of their houses or in their announcements of marriage, allegedly had their sentences reviewed under section 295 C and commuted to capital punishment. Like the Ahmadis, the Zikris are reportedly still being harassed with a view to declaring them non-Muslims. It is alleged that many Zikris whose faith dates back to the sixteenth century and advocates abstinence, seclusion, contentment and invocation of the holy names of Allah, have been prevented by the authorities from organizing their annual processions and rites at the end of Ramadan, in Turbat, in the coastal area of Baluchistan. The present campaign against this minority is reportedly also racially based and reveals fundamentalist intransigence at work in Pakistan society.