Friday, May 8, 2020
احمدی اور پاکستانی اقلیتی کونسل، سوشل میڈیا پر بحث
پاکستان میں اقلیتی کونسل میں احمدیوں کو نمائندگی دیے جانے سے متعلق سامنے آنے والی خبروں اور حکومت کی جانب سے اس معاملے پر پیچھے ہٹ جانے کے باوجود شدید بحث جاری ہے۔
پاکستان میں کابینہ کی جانب سے وزارتِ مذہبی امور کو اقلیتی کونسل کی تشکیل نو کے لیے بھیجی جانے والی ایک سمری میں احمدیوں کو بھی اس کونسل میں شامل کیا گیا تھا، تاہم اس پر شدید ردعمل کے بعد حتمی نوٹیفیکشن میں یہ فیصلہ واپس لے لیا گیا۔
تاہم اس معاملے پر تاحال ٹی وی چینلز پر وزیراعظم عمران خان کی کابینہ کے چند وزراء پر کڑی تنقید ہو رہی ہے جب کہ سوشل میڈیا پر بھی کابینہ کے اس عمل کے ساتھ ساتھ احمدی برداری کے خلاف ایک مہم جاری ہے۔
ایک معروف پاکستانی ٹی وی اینکر ندیم ملک نے اس سلسلے میں وفاقی وزیر برائے مذہبی امور نورالحق قادری سے ایک ٹی وی شو میں تندوتیز سوالات بھی کیے۔ اس پروگرام میں نورالحق قادری دفاعی پوزیشن اختیار کیے دکھائی دیے۔
سوشل میڈیا پر بھی احمدیوں کے خلاف کئی طرح کے ہیش ٹیگ دکھائی دیے، جس پر انسانی حقوق کی تنظیموں اور کارکنوں کی جانب سے تشویش کا اظہار بھی کیا گیا ہے۔
پاکستانی سوشل میڈیا صارف ریما عمر اس حوالے سے اپنے ایک ٹوئٹر پیغام میں کہتی ہیں، ''نفرت کا ایک بھونڈا منظر اور وہ بھی کابینہ کی جانب سے ایک بے اختیار کمیشن میں ایک احمدی رکن کو شامل کرنے پر۔ کس طرح لوگ احمدیوں سے نفرت میں روزانہ کی بنیاد پر کہاں سے کہاں نکل جاتے ہیں۔‘‘
Pathetic display of bigotry here, that too over a discussion in the cabinet about including an Ahmadi member in a toothless commission on *minorities* which has no real legal standing, mandate
Astounding how people get away with spewing hatred against Ahmadis on a regular basis twitter.com/sohaileqbal1/s…
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ایک سوشل میڈیا صارف مونا فاروق نے ندیم ملک کے پروگرام پر سخت تنقید کرتے ہوئے کہا، ''ہر احمدی مسلم پیغمبر کی ختم نبوت پر ایمان رکھتا ہو۔ آپ کا پورا پروگرام احمدیوں سے نفرت اور جھوٹ پر مبنی تھا۔ ہمیں آپ سے کسی سند کی ضرورت نہیں مگر صرف ریٹنگ کے لیے ایک پرامن برداری کے خلاف نفرت کا پرچار ایک شرم ناک کام ہے۔‘‘
ایک سوشل میڈیا صارف مونا فاروق نے ندیم ملک کے پروگرام پر سخت تنقید کرتے ہوئے کہا، ''ہر احمدی مسلم پیغمبر کی ختم نبوت پر ایمان رکھتا ہو۔ آپ کا پورا پروگرام احمدیوں سے نفرت اور جھوٹ پر مبنی تھا۔ ہمیں آپ سے کسی سند کی ضرورت نہیں مگر صرف ریٹنگ کے لیے ایک پرامن برداری کے خلاف نفرت کا پرچار ایک شرم ناک کام ہے۔‘‘
Each and every Ahmadi Muslim believes Prophet (SAW) as Khataman Nabiyeen. So your whole show with hateful rant against Ahamdis is a blatant lie. We don't need your certificate for our beliefs but inciting violence against a peaceful community for ratings is shameful @nadeemmalik
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پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے سندھ کی عوامی حکومت کی جانب سے کراچی اور حیدرآباد کے بعد لاڑکانہ میں بھی کروناوائرس ٹیسٹنگ لیب کے قیام پر اطمینان و تعریف کا اظہار کیا ہے
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے سندھ کی عوامی حکومت کی جانب سے کراچی اور حیدرآباد کے بعد لاڑکانہ میں بھی کروناوائرس ٹیسٹنگ لیب کے قیام پر اطمینان و تعریف کا اظہار کیا ہے۔ اپنے جاری کردہ بیان میں پی پی پی چیئرمین نے کہا کہ ٹیسٹنگ صلاحیت میں اضافہ صحیح سمت میں کی جانے والی کاوشیں ہیں، جبکہ صوبے کے تین شہروں میں کروناوائرس ٹیسٹنگ سہولیات کی مفت فراہمی سندھ حکومت کا قابل تحسین اقدام ہے۔
بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا کہ انہیں یقین ہے، حکومت سندھ اس مہلک وباء کی روکتھام کے سلسلے میں گمبٹ اور سکھر سمیت صوبے کے دیگر علاقوں میں بھی مذکورہ سہولیات کو بڑھائے گی۔
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری کی پی پی پی شمالی وزیرستان کے رہنما شفقت داوڑ کی گرفتاری کی شدید مذمت
انہوں نے پی پی پی شمالی وزیرستان کے سابق سیکریٹری اطلاعات شفقت داوڑ کی گرفتاری پی ٹِی آئی حکومت کی صریحاً انتقامی کاروائی قرار دیتے ہوئے مطالبہ کیا کہ شفقت داوڑ کو فوری طور رہا کیا جائے۔ بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا کہ پی پی پی قیادت و کارکنان اُن جیالوں کے شانہ بشانہ کھڑے ہیں، جنھیں سابقہ فاٹا سمیت ملک کے مختلف علاقوں میں دہونس دھمکیوں کا سامنا کرنا پڑ رہا ہے، لیکن پارٹی کی جانب سے انہیں اور ان کے اہل خانہ کو ہر ممکن قانونی و اخلاقی مدد فراہم کی جائے گی۔
https://www.ppp.org.pk/2020/05/08/chairman-ppp-bilawal-bhutto-zardari-ki-ppp-rehnuma-shafqat-daawar-ki-giraftari-per-mazamat/
#Pakistan #coronavirus cases surge past 25,000, pace quickens
Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced plans to begin lifting Pakistan's poorly enforced lockdown from Saturday, amid fears for the country's economy as it sinks into recession.
Coronavirus cases in Pakistan surged past 25,000 on Friday, just hours before the government was due to lift lockdown measures, with the country reporting some of the biggest daily increases in new infections in the world. Officials reported 1,764 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours on Friday, taking the total to 25,837. Deaths rose by 30 to 594.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced plans to begin lifting Pakistan's poorly enforced lockdown from Saturday, amid fears for the country's economy as it sinks into recession.
Mr. Khan said the easing of restrictions, aimed at helping the country's most impoverished citizens, would be lifted in phases and warned people that the epidemic could get out of control if they did not take precautions. He added that restrictions could be restored if the outbreak worsens.
The government's handling of the virus has been strongly criticised by scientists and doctors who fear the outbreak will gather pace among a population of around 210 million and overwhelm the country's struggling health system.After reporting just a handful of COVID-19 cases in late February, Pakistan's numbers began to surge from mid-March. It has reported an average of just over 1,000 cases and around 27 deaths per day for the past week, according to a Reuters tally based on official data.
In the Middle East and Asia regions, only India, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey are reporting daily increases at a similar rate.
Pakistan officials have said small markets and shops would be the first to open, with restricted hours, while big malls and other spaces that attract large crowds will remain closed for now. Schools will stay shut until mid-July and a decision on reopening intercity transport would be made at a later, unspecified, date.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-coronavirus-cases-surge-past-25000-pace-quickens-reuters-tally/article31531445.ece
HRW slams exclusion of #Ahmadis from #Pakistan minority commission
By Asad Hashim
HRW calls exclusion of Ahmadiyya from commission 'absurd', while sect leaders warn it could lead to greater persecution.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has termed the Pakistani government's exclusion of members of the Ahmadiyya religious movement from a commission on safeguarding the rights of minorities "absurd", while sect leaders have warned it could lead to greater persecution of members resident in the South Asian country.
"The Ahmadis are among the most persecuted communities in Pakistan and to exclude them from a minority rights commission is absurd," said Brad Adams, Asia director at HRW, a US-based rights group, in a statement on Friday.
"Keeping Ahmadis off the commission shows the extent to which the community faces discrimination every day."
Earlier this week, the Pakistani government established the National Commission on Minorities (NCM), an interfaith body aimed at increasing religious tolerance and addressing issues of persecution in the country of 220 million people.
Pakistan is home to more than half a million Ahmadis, who have been declared "non-Muslim" under Pakistan's constitution since 1974 for their belief in the sect's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, being a subordinate prophet to Islam's final prophet, Muhammad.
Members of the sect believe they are Muslim, and, as such, a community spokesperson told Al Jazeera they did not wish to be a part of the commission, but that dragging them into the argument had increased threats of violence.
"They never approached us or contacted us about this," said Saleemuddin, the spokesperson.
"We never requested this - our principled stand is the same as before and we will not join such a commission."
Saleemuddin said debate over the issue - an emotive subject for many in religiously conservative Pakistan - had resulted in greater threats to the Ahmadi community.
"What it does is put the community more in danger," he said.
"The campaign that has been launched after that, no one has spoken to the community and we have become even more vulnerable."
'They do not fall in the definition of minorities'
Members of the Ahmadiyya sect were initially part of the government's plans for the commission, but after the religious affairs ministry objected on April 15, their representation was removed.
On May 5, when announcing the official formation of the commission, Information Minister Shibli Faraz said Ahmadis were to be excluded because "they do not fall in the definition of minorities".
The back-and-forth on the issue prompted the religious affairs minister, Noor-ul-Haq Qadri, to accuse Ahmadis of not recognising the constitution, a charge community spokesperson Saleemuddin denied.
"The government's position is clear that it can only include a group or party in the country's constitutional bodies after that group recognises the constitution," Qadri said.
"Declaring your reservations or objections to a certain constitutional amendment, does that make you a traitor?" said Saleemuddin.
"The constitution gives me a right to believe myself to be whatever I am. If you have declared us non-Muslim for the purposes of law and constitution, fine, but I have the right to believe what I am myself."
Ahmadis routinely face widespread discrimination in Pakistan, with members of the sect denied service at shops or businesses if they identify themselves.
Specific provisions of Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws make it illegal for them to refer to themselves as Muslims, or to their places of worship and call to prayer by the equivalent Islamic terms. The country has also seen numerous targeted attacks against members of the community.
Saleemuddin warned that fiery debate over the issue on nationally aired television news channels risked inflaming tensions further.
"Day by day, life is becoming even more difficult for us," he said.
"We are so restricted socially, and anyone who is branded an Ahmadi it becomes impossible for them to live [in that area] ... if they need to do a business, go for groceries, or anything."
#Balochistan: Roadside explosion kills six #Pakistani soldiers
At least six Pakistani paramilitary troops including a major were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) in district Kech Balochistan on Friday.
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, said May 8 that the security forces were returning from patrolling duty when an improvised explosive device (IED) hit their reconnaissance vehicle.
The killed Pakistani forces personnel have been named as Major Nadeem Abbas Bhatti, resident of Hafizabad, Naik Jamshed, resident of Mianwali, Lance Naik Taimoor, resident of Taunsa Sharif, Lance Naik Khizer Hayat, resident of Attock, Sepoy Sajid, resident of Mardan and Sepoy Nadeem, resident of Taunsa Sharif.
Today’s attack was the latest in a series of ambushes on Pakistani forces in the mineral-rich Balochistan, a key route of $64 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
The Western Part of Balochistan is occupied by Iran whereas the Northern part fell under Afghanistan control after the British drew the Durand Line due to which large chunks of Afghanistan were given to Pakistan. The Baloch and Afghans, however, have never accepted the Durand Line.
Balochistan is strategically important because of the rich presence of copper, zinc, and natural gas.
The Baloch people are currently ‘at war with Pakistan’ because at the end of British rule in 1947 Balochistan declared its independence but their sovereign country was forcibly incorporated into Pakistan in 1948.
Baloch people have fought five wars of liberations against Pakistan, the latest and ongoing attempt to push for freedom started in 1996 which is considered by far the more organised and widespread compared to previous insurgencies in Balochistan.