Atif Mian
On Thursday, June 5th, the principal of Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, expelled every student who belonged to the Ahmadi community from the college.
A total of twenty three students, fifteen female and eight male, across the five years of medical school have been expelled as a result. Further details regarding the incident can also be found in reports from the BBC and from the Daily Times.
The Ahmadi students were “accused” of preaching their religious beliefs. The principal was pressured into expelling the entire Ahmadi student body by a mob of protesters belonging to Islami Jamiat e Talaba. The mob circled the Principal’s office and demanded the expulsions. The same day, a mob of about 300 college students also barged into Ahmadi students’ rooms, beat them and threw their luggage out of their rooms.
What makes this incident especially troubling is the fact that the decision to expel Ahmadi students was taken by a government-run medical school, under full knowledge of the relevant Punjab ministries.
As an academic, and a Pakistani, I am totally appalled by this latest incidence of religious fanaticism. One hopes that the present Punjab government turns a page, and instead of supporting the forces of extremism, comes to the protection of its ordinary citizens.
Atif Mian is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
This is horrendous so is the face of mullas, Pakistan was created for humans to live not for mullas as they are exactly reverse of every single human trait one can think of. You cannot think of any good coming out of that bunch. They are dragging Pakistan close to the edge of destruction. I hope that people having rational thoughts will muster up against this utter injustice
I would like to amend last line….
as we have failed to live like humans in the country awarded to us.
What are we…..?
Do we have any brain…
Yes we have brain to grap what ever we can by any means..
and still our wishes does not end there and then we go to the mirror who tells us that we are the most enlightened creation and rest is all useless that makes us elivated to a point from where we treat every other one as JAHANAMI . With nothing contributed towards the humanity we still belive the world should bow to our feet because we are the heirs of a Great religon …. we just know its name and nothing else. That we are so let the world wait for some more time…….. till some one is here to teach us a lesson as we have failed to protect the country awarded to us.
Is this the Pakistan our fore fathers were looking at …… .
Let me start from the basics..
When we speak we speak lie, we are a nation of illitrate and hyprocates, twenty years ago I wrote a letter to one news paper asking have we lost our place in history?…… but now afer twenty years I my self can say YES we have lost every thing. In this land those mothers who gave birth to men of word have died, here mothers are giving birth to only some thing who is nothing….. no principles
We don’t know what is right or worng… what are the basic principles that we have to follow. Coming to the Medical college incident… I don’t know where to start from… but let me tell you one thing the prosecutions against Ahmadies has always been sponsered either by the gov or the anti gov. to divert the attentions of masses this is the only card played many times and till today no one came to rescue the Ahmadies.
forgot to mention that recently when we celebrated 100 years of Khilafat on 27th May. Many Ahmadies were arrested from/near Rabwah…… as they were carrying “weapons of mass destruction” which included, flags, p-caps, and different kinds badges carrying different Duas and mubarak baad titles. many are still in jail for this huge “crime” they commited.
when u can get arrested for this reason, then u can be expelled from college too.
its just that the Mullahs are too jealous after seeing our cenetenary celebrations. the Jammat they wanted to erase from the world, is now all over the world MashAllah, and is growing with every turning hour. Alhamdoillah. We dont need any constitution to prove that we are Muslims or not. Allah knows better and that is why He has kept us in protection. He is the best one to decide about the deeds of every human. so its better that ppl start to look in mirrors, before its too late!!!
take care
Sabahat