Shab Qadar Incidence
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Shab Qadar is a town in North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. The town was brought in the news in 1995 for an incidence of public stoning of two members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
A local person by the name of Daulat Khan, who converted to Ahmadiyya Sect of Islam, was arrested on 5 April 1995 under sections 107 (abetment) and 151 (disturbing the peace by joining in unlawful assembly) of the Penal Code. Two separate cases were registered against Daulat Khan under sections 295 A and 298 C of the Penal Code. He was behind bars in Central Jail, Peshawar. On 9 April 1995, Rashid Ahmad and his son-in-law, Riaz Khan, were attacked by a mob fired up by the local clerics as they were about to attend a court hearing in Shab Qadar in order to file a bail application on Daulat Khan's behalf. Riaz Khan was stoned to death and Rashid Ahmad was taken to hospital in Peshawar with serious injuries. A third Ahmadi advocate, Bashir Ahmad, escaped unhurt.
Famous Urdu novelist Mustansar Hussain Tarar made a reference to this event in his novel entitled "raakh" ('ash').
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- Implementation of the declaration on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion of belief, Report submitted by Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/23
