Assistant Commissioner (AC) Attock, Jannat Hussain Nekokara was forced to apologise for her comments in support of equal rights for minorities.
While speaking at an International Human Rights Day event in Attock on December 10, 2019, Jannat Hussain Nekokara had called for granting equal rights to all minorities “including Ahmadis in the list of Muslim Sects” regardless of religious divisions. Watch the controversial Speech of Assistant Commissioner Attock, in the video, below.
“We should give due rights to non-Muslims Pakistanis, we should give them their due regard, we have unfortunately gotten stuck in these religious divisions, someone identifies as Shia, someone as Sunni, someone as an Ahmadi, someone as a Wahabi, we should dissolve these differences and instead identify ourselves only as Muslims and Pakistanis,” she said.
But her speech at International Human rights day, became controversial and sparked outrage among the audience and local public because, she listed the Ahmadis in the list of Muslim sects. (According to Constitution of Pakistan ‘1973’, Ahmadis are non-Muslim minority not a sect of Muslims). Also Read: Altaf Hussain Converted to Hinduism.
Soon afterward, over a hundreds of protesters, most of them students, arrived at the district administration building demanding an explanation from the Attock AC over grouping Ahmadis with other Muslims in her speech.
In her defence, AC Nekokara said that she did not in any way imply that Ahmadis were Muslims and said she accepted the constitution which declared them non-Muslims. Watch the video of AC Attock, Jannat Hussain Apologizing for her controversial statement about Ahmadis.
“I talked about minority rights, I spoke about rights of non-Muslim Pakistanis, may be I should have not even mentioned the word Ahmadi in that, then I spoke about how we should stay united and not discriminate against anyone so that we can protect against external enemies,” she said.
“They (Ahmadis) are non-Muslim according to the constitution and non-Muslim in my view as well,” she added.
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Public Reactions on Controversial Speech of AC Attock, Jannat Hussain Nekokara
The videos of Jannat Hussain Nekokara spread on social media and people came up with mixed reactions. Watch some public reactions on the controversial Speech of AC Attock, below.