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Opposition leader and chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Group (PNL-N) Nawaz Sharif has been censured by clerics of different religious parties as Mr. Sharif spoke in friendly terms about the Ahmadi sect. Mr. Sharif was expressing solidarity with the Ahmadis who came under a bloody attack on Friday May 28, 2010, leaving over 90 of them dead and scores of others injured.
In a statement on Saturday June 06, 2010, in Lahore, Mr. Sharif expressed commiseration toward the Ahmadi community, calling them ‘brothers of Muslims”. This set orthodox Muslim clerics on fire since Ahmadis have been official declared non-Muslims and fundamentalist Muslims look on them as “traitors”. Mr. Sharif at once came under verbal attack from the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia, of Deobandi school of thought, which stated that Mr. Sharif should be ashamed of calling Ahmadis brothers of Muslims.
The Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia statement mentioned Ahmadis as “traitors” and “infidels” and stressed that they could not be the brothers of Muslims unless they re-convert to Islam. It warned Mr. Sharif not to make such statements. Other religious parties also expressed resentment over Mr. Sharif’s statement. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) president Maulana Sami-ul-Haq even threatened that his party would launch a countrywide protest if Mr. Sharif did not retract his statement.
