‘Why single us out?’ Pakistan’s Ahmadi minority boycotts election, again

In a single attack in Daska city in Punjab last year, at least 74 graves were broken [Courtesy of Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Amir Mahmood remembers a meeting between top officials of Pakistan’s government last September. He can’t forget how the community, for long a victim of persecution in the country, saw a decline in attacks on its graves and shrines in the days after that meeting.

But that respite did not last.