Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business Volume 11 | Issue 1 Article 2 2011 PAKISTAN’S FAILED COMMITMENT: How Pakistan's Institutionalized Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Qasim Rashid University of Richmond School of Law Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/global Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, and the Religion Law Commons Recommended Citation Qasim Rashid, PAKISTAN’S FAILED COMMITMENT: How Pakistan's Institutionalized Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 11 Rich. J. Global L. & Bus. 1 (2011). Available at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/global/vol11/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PAKISTAN’S FAILED COMMITMENT: HOW PAKISTAN’S INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSECUTION OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY VIOLATES THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS By Qasim Rashid1 “My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and cooperation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah,2* Pakistan’s Founder and First Governor General at the Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on 11th August, 1947. ABSTRACT: The United Nations (“UN”) adopted the International Cove- nant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”) in 1966 and officially im- plemented it in 1976 to ensure, among other guarantees, that no 1 The author is an American-Muslim human rights activist, writer, and lecturer on American-Islamic issues.