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Enforced Apostasy: Zaheeruddin v. State and the Official Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan |
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APPENDIX III
Passport Declaration in Case of Muslims [in Pakistan] *246 |
I ____________ s/o ____________ aged ___ years, adult Muslim, resident of ________________________________ hereby solemnly declare that:
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I am a Muslim and believe in the absolute and unqualified finality of the prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) the last of the prophets. |
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I do not recognize any person who claims to be a prophet in any sense of the word or of any description whatsoever after Muhammad (peace be upon him) or recognize such a claimant as a prophet or a religious reformer as a Muslim. |
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I consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani to be an imposter nabi [prophet] and also consider his followers whether belonging to the Lahori or Qadiani group, to be non-Muslim. |
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Signature or thumb impression. |
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Gualtieri, supra note 19, at 121. The Pakistan Government made the belief that Ahmadis are non-Muslim necessary to possess Muslimhood, and thus a tenet of Islam for passport purposes. |
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