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It would not be inappropriate to commemorate the sacrifices that the Ahmadiyya community has offered in its commitment for peace and promoting unity in Pakistan and elsewhere. Ahmadis – who have greatly developed the instinct of being peace loving, law abiding, respectful of every nation they dwell in, affectionate and welcoming to every religious communities they live with, watchful of always defending the integrity of Pakistan & Islam throughout the world, are in fact regarded as traitors, infidels and non-Muslim in their homeland – Pakistan.
Right from the outset, Ahmadiyyat has produced men of the calibre of Mirza Bashirud Din Ahmad and Sir Zafarullah Khan. When it comes to finances and civil services we find the deeply intellectual Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad and in relation to the field of science we all are familiar with the only Pakistani Nobel laureate Abdus Salam. For rendering sacrifices in the armed forces Ahmadis feature on an endless list with names like Akhtar Hussain Malik, Iftikhar Janjua, Abdul Ali Malik, Munirud Din and many more. Recently, an Ahmadi Major Afzal Mahmood sacrificed his life for the nation in Bajur agency. In the field of arts they are also prominent, giving us eminent names such as Obaidulla Aleem, Saira Waseem and Qalandar Momand.
It is also a remarkable datum that we cannot find a single Ahmadi who has ever worked against the state or was involved in terrorism directly or indirectly.
Despite Ahmadiyya’s clear stance in being loyal to the country and their great role in building the nation, some elements in Pakistan are continuously trying to besmirch them through malicious intrigues. Today is the 14th of April and exactly 13 years ago an Ahmadi Computer Professional – Mirza Ghulam Qadir, aged 37, was kidnapped from his farm situated at the outskirts of Chenab Nagar – then Rabwah. The upcoming lines are a summary of the reports published in newspapers from 14th to 20th April 1999.
Kidnapers drove him and his car towards the nearby town of Chiniot. Qadir struggled to try to get out of the car but he was forced to stay in, he was gagged and even stabbed. They were caught in a traffic muddle on the river bridge when Qadir finally succeeded in getting out of the car but they opened fire and shot him multiple times, leaving Qadir’s car and hurriedly making good their escape in their own car. Qadir was rushed to the hospital but couldn’t survive his excessive loss of blood and sadly passed away. In the meantime, police parties pursued the outlaws. Finding themselves besieged, these outlaws left the car and took shelter in a school and subsequently in a mosque. This siege lasted for 4 to 5 hours until the forces were assisted by the elite commandos from Lahore. Finally in the shoot-out, all four were killed. The arms and ammunitions recovered from their car included sophisticated weapons like one rocket launcher, five shells, 22 bombs, six time bombs, two LMGs, two pistols one mouser and an AK-47 assault rifle. Some women’s clothing, black in colour, normally used during Muharram, were also recovered from the car.
All newspapers except a few eulogized the action of our police forces. Few raised a question as to why they were killed and not arrested. Perhaps they were killed to erase evidence of their crime. It is also noteworthy that the provincial chief under whom this incident happened (Qadir’s assassination) was the same provincial chief under which in 2010, some terrorists were captured with sophisticated weapons by Chiniot Police at the Chiniot Railway Station and astonishingly released soon after. Same CM, same district, same police, same high targets. Previously they were killed in the presence of elite commandos, this time they were calmly arrested by ordinary police force. It is very strange, absurd and void of logic. The assassins of Qadir could easily have been arrested.
Many advocated that it was merely a simple case of kidnapping for ransom but this notion is foolish. If it was just a simple kidnap attempt, the assailants would have moved away from Rabwah towards Lalian, rather than crossing through Rabwah to the more populated city of Chiniot. In addition to this the involvement of the top brass of the Lashkar Jhangvi, the imminence of Muharram, the sizable weapons’ inventory and the status of their captive all point towards a horrible and malicious plan. The artillery mentioned above was simply too much to kill/kidnap an unarmed person. Moreover the Daily Khabrain, April 16, 1999 reported,
“… The police confirmed that these terrorists had very dangerous plans to undertake extensive bloodletting and destruction during Muharram.”
This all leads one to assume that the purpose of this abduction was to deceitfully implicate the Ahmadiyya Community in sectarian violence, to put the entire blame on Ahmadis and turn the Shia community and the State machinery against them.
Had they succeeded in their effort they would easily get Qadir arrested at some police post with heavy weaponry in his car or set him and his car on fire with the hefty ammo inside. This would have demonstrated to the people of Pakistan that Ahmadis are intricately involved in Shia killings and are responsible for supplying arms to hired executioners.
Now, the recent incident with Abdul Qudoos is another example of an attempt to falsely implicate the Ahmadiyya community in a murder that it did not commit. Qudoos said,
“They pitilessly tortured me and kept on trying to compel me to name anyone among the high administration in Rabwah to be responsible for the murder, but they could not force me to utter a single word. I forbore every pain for truth.”
Why these continuous enforced attempts and machinations to drag this peaceful community into the hostile arena of disrespecting law and of terrorism? Why are we continuously trying to test the patience of Ahmadis?
I know the assassins of Qadir are dead since long, but we have living culprits of May masacre and murderers of Abdul Qudoos. Lets investigate and unveil the hidden hand behind these attempts and articulate it boldly to the people of Pakistan.
The countrywide hate campaigns and discrimination towards Ahmadis have also this covert intent to break the forbearance of Ahmadis and to compel them to come out on the streets to retaliate. This point was indeed in the mind of the US Ambassador who especially came to Rabwah to meet Mirza Tahir Ahmad before the application of ordinance XX. He asked;
“Well, you know, everybody is crying for your head and the Govt. can succumb to the pressure and take certain measures. In such case what will be the reaction of the Ahmadiyya Movement?”
Mirza Tahir Ahmed replied,
“We are a peaceful community. We will behave in the best traditions according to our past experience.”
These simple though sturdy words have been the maxim for Ahmadis. The biggest agony that Pakistani Ahmadis faced was the migration of Mirza Tahir Ahmed, even then they remained patient. If I only mention the May 28 incident which claimed 86 lives, it would be unfair to the long spam of almost exactly 28 years of severe maltreatments they faced after the proclamation of Ordinance XX (Apr 26, 1984). Ahmadis have resolutely determined to abide by the law. How many more attempts do we need to deplete their resolve? Isn’t it better to stop for a while and put an end to harassing the ones who believe in Love for All Hatred for None and who, despite these severe atrocities, are still helpless in defining their love for Pakistan?
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