Ahmadis In Pakistan | Ahmadis In India | |
Population: 4 million | Population: Estimated to be from 60,000 to 1 million | |
Headquarters: Rabwah town, Punjab | Headquarters: Qadian in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, where the sect was established. The 2001 census counted roughly 20,000 Ahmadis in Qadian. | |
Status: Since 1974, declared non-Muslim | Why low numbers: Partition saw the bulk of Ahmadis becoming citizens of Pakistan | |
What they can't do: Call themselves Muslim, offer prayers in mosques, quote Quranic verses in their newspaper, propagate their religion | Status: Several high court verdicts say they must be treated as Muslim | |
Threats from fundamentalists: They say it is ‘permissible to kill' them. Some 2,000 died in riots in 1953, suffered untold misery in 1974. The attacks on them claimed nearly 100 lives. | What they can't do: They don't sit on the Muslim Personal Law Board, but are governed by Muslims |