Eid or Erasure? State-Enabled Apartheid and Genocidal Rhetoric Against Ahmadis in Pakistan
- The International Human Rights Committee
- Jun 10
- 3 min read
Criminalized for Worship, Targeted for Faith—The System is the Executioner
On June 7, 2025, while millions of Muslims in Pakistan gathered in joy to offer Eid ul-Adha prayers and animal sacrifice, Ahmadi Muslims across the country were met not with celebration—but with intimidation, arrests, mosque closures, and public threats of annihilation.
This wasn’t isolated. It wasn’t accidental. It was organized.
A Social Media Trail of Terror
Leaders and followers of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and affiliated sectarian groups openly boasted on social media about preventing Ahmadis from performing Eid rituals. Their posts read like fascist manifestos— bragging about surveillance, forcing the removal of Islamic symbols, and collaborating with police to ensure Ahmadis could not gather or sacrifice animals. Video evidence circulating across social media shows disturbing comments against a peaceful minority.
One post proudly stated:
“If Muslims see Qadianis performing sacrifice anywhere, they should immediately report in the police station and initiate legal proceedings.”
Another post, more sinister, declared:
“Even if a person kills a hundred Mirzais in one day... we will not stop.”
And perhaps the most chilling:
“We didn’t kill him. But we also don’t say that we aren’t going to kill.”
These are not fringe voices. These are public declarations of genocide— offered under the impunity of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, particularly Section 298-B/C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which criminalizes the Ahmadi identity itself.
Link to video on social media:
When Faith is Outlawed, Silence Becomes Survival
The state’s complicity is not passive. Ahmadis are not only stopped by mobs—they are blocked by the state itself. Police collaborate with extremists to seal mosques, prevent prayers, and detain worshippers. In Lahore, videos emerged of Ahmadis being ushered out of their sealed mosque on Eid morning, placed into police vans while TLP mobs cheered.
In effect, Pakistan has created a legal regime in which practicing your faith as an Ahmadi is a punishable crime—but threatening to exterminate Ahmadis is not.
Link to video on social media:
Apartheid With a Smile, Genocide in Slow Motion
This is more than discrimination. It is the systematic annihilation of a people’s religious identity.
Ahmadis are barred from Islamic practices.
Mosques are vandalized, sealed, and reclassified as "places of
disturbance."
Sacrifices are criminalized.
Social media is weaponized for hate propagation.
Extremists declare their genocidal ambitions publicly—unpunished.
This is religious apartheid. This is a silent genocide. And the international community’s silence only sharpens the knife.
A Nation Built by Minorities, Now Exiling Them
Pakistan was founded with the blood and service of all its communities, including Ahmadis. Yet today, they are treated as enemies of the very land they helped build. Denied basic religious rights, surveilled, dehumanized, and forced into public declarations of non-practice, Ahmadis are effectively stateless within their own country.
They cannot celebrate Eid. They cannot mourn. They cannot live freely.
And they are told—explicitly—that their death would be no tragedy.
We Demand Immediate Global and Domestic Action
To the Government of Pakistan:
Dismantle the architecture of religious apartheid—repeal Sections 298- B/C and Ordinance XX.
Ban Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and affiliated extremist groups.
Investigate and prosecute those using social media to incite genocide.
Unseal Ahmadiyya places of worship and provide police protection—not
persecution.
To the International Community:
Recognize the systemic nature of this persecution as religious cleansing.
Apply targeted sanctions on Pakistani officials enabling hate.
Designate TLP and Khatm-e-Nabuwat groups as terrorist entities.
Demand accountability from Pakistan under its international human
rights obligations.
This isn’t just hate. It is policy. It is execution. It is apartheid with a legislative backbone.
Until the world treats it as such, the genocide will not be televised—it will be live-streamed by the perpetrators.
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