Do Ahmadis Deserve to Live in Pakistan?

Yasser Latif Hamdani (born 5 June 1980) is a young lawyer and a creative writer based in Lahore, Pakistan. He received his early education from Lahore. He did his BA in Economics from the Rutgers University, New Jersey, United states of America. He studied further from Pakistan where he was able to get his LLB degree from Quaid-e-Azam Law College of the Punjab University. As a writer he has written “Jinnah; myth and reality”, in which, he is arguing that the founder of Pakistan, Jinnah, sought Pakistan to be a secular democratic state. As a lawyer, he has been there in judging the big cases as of the ‘Baghat Singh Case’ and recently, he is also raising voice in favor of unblocking YouTube in Pakistan. Being a social activist, he writes about the social issues that prevail in the society. In writing about these issues, he is not limited to the issues only raised by Pakistan but also writes about the social issues faced by other countries such as America and India. He writes regularly for Friday times, Express Tribune and Daily Times Pakistan. He loves to write about the minorities and tries to portray the real picture of the minorities provided the given circumstances. He is also against religious extremism, he tries his best in presenting the issues of minorities, especially Ahmadis and this is the reason behind writing of this article. The article was published in the Friday Times on September 06, 2012.After its publication, it created a lot of trouble and dissatisfaction for the religious Islamic fundamentalists. But the wise and educated people took it as a problem for their state and somehow conformed to it. The article is as controversial as it was in the times of its publication because in these days there are lots of issues...

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...f the Ahmadis in Pakistan. Although, the writer has presented his view in a structural and coherent, however, the occasional use of fallacious arguments and the author’s unnecessary inclination towards Ahmadis has weakened the presented view of the author. The writer, using long sentences and serious tone in the text, has highlighted the issue before the intended audience. Through author’s emotional appeals, the common people of the society may get convinced but the article is not enough supportive to convince the Islamic fundamentalists. As a whole, the text is inspiring enough to get the sight of common people and to convince them about the ill-treatment of Ahmadis in Pakistan.

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