• Pakistan Persecutes a Muslim Minority

    Islamists bully the homegrown Ahmadi sect, and the government responds with ‘a surrender so abject that the mind is numb.’

    You may expect a country created as a homeland for Muslims to celebrate the homegrown sect that gave the world its first Muslim Nobel laureate in physics (Abdus Salam), and the first Muslim Oscar winner (Mahershala Ali). But when it comes to Pakistan’s treatment of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community—less than 2% of the country’s 208 million people—celebration is the last word that comes to mind.

    Hostility toward Ahmadis sparked the latest crisis to grip the Islamic republic. On Monday, the army brokered an end to a three-week...

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