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Pakistan: Multan Bar Association Passes Resolution To Prevent Non-Muslims From Contesting Elections
Swarajya Staff
Jan 12, 2020, 11:00 AM | Updated 11:00 AM IST
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In Pakistan’s Multan, the Multan Bar Association has passed a resolution to prevent non-Muslims partaking in elections of bar council.
The resolution bars Ahmadiyyas and non-Muslim lawyers from participating in the election of associations or the bar council.
Multan Bar Association passed resolution to prevent non-Muslims partaking in elections of bar council.
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Pakistan’s constitution calls the country an Islamic country, and persons from Hindu, Christian and other non-Muslim groups not allowed to becomes the president or the prime minister of the country.
The Islamic republic is also infamous for the persecution of non-Muslim minorities. Recently, stones were pelted and hateful sloganeering carried out outside the Nankana Sahib, a Sikh religious place.
This was after a minor Sikh girl, allegedly abducted and forcibly converted to Islam returned back to her family. Two days after the incident, a Sikh young man was murdered.
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