Pakistan, April 23 -- Last week's lynching in Karachi of a 46?year?old Ahmadi businessman, brutally beaten by Tehreek?e?Labbaik Pakistan activists merely for offering Friday prayers, laid bare the daily nightmare faced by our country's religious minorities. For Ahmadis, who many hard?liners regard as heretical, this kind of mob violence has, tragically, become all too routine.

Yet what makes this tragedy especially chilling is that Laeeq Ahmad Cheema wasn't a random victim: he had stepped forward as a witness in the investigation into the TLP's alleged role in the 2023 demolition of the Ahmadiyya Hall. That detail casts a long shadow over the attack, suggesting a calculated effort to silence those brave enough to speak out. Such brazen a...