In the heart of Pakistan, a mother’s world has been shattered by the forceful conversion of her 17-year-old son, Samsoon Javed, to Islam. Samina Javed, a struggling brick kiln worker, speaks through her tears, recounting the nightmare that unfolded when her son was taken from her, not just physically but spiritually, […]
In a heart-wrenching assault on the Ahmadi community’s right to worship, police in Pakistan’s Punjab province have allegedly demolished the minarets of a 40-year-old Ahmadi worship place in Okara, Depalpur, roughly 130 kilometers from Lahore. The shocking incident has left the Ahmadi community, already besieged by decades of persecution, grappling with […]
People gathered outside the village, their eyes burning with anger. We carried the body of Dr. Shahnawaz Kandanar, hoping to lay him to rest in our land in the quiet desert. But before we could lower him into the earth, they came—furious, unrelenting. We had no choice but to flee. As […]