"On 24 December 2025, an Additional Sessions Court in Lalian, Punjab, delivered a verdict that should shame any legal system claiming to uphold justice. Mubarak Ahmad Saani, an Ahmadi Muslim, was sentenced to life imprisonment under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. His crime was not desecrating the Quran, not insulting Islam, not inciting violence or hatred, but calling himself a “Hafiz,” and distributing a book of Quranic translation and commentary revered by his community. …The verdict of 24 December 2025 will be remembered as a moral failure. It is a stain on Pakistan’s judiciary, a betrayal of the Quran’s own message of justice and mercy, and a chilling reminder that in Pakistan, the harsh persecution of Ahmadis continues—not in the shadows, but in the full light of the courtrooms."