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The decision to ratify the Swedish bid for Nato membership gave the summit an opening lift.

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His victory is described by commentators as key to his series of moves towards the West. Newly re-elected, Mr Erdogan was hailed as a partner for the next five years by leaders from Mr Biden on down. The relationship between the pair was instrumental in last year’s Black Sea Grain Initiative that stabilised global food markets. He keeps in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr Erdogan will have been fully aware of Russia’s frustrations as Nato gathered in the former Soviet bloc.

The alliance backing for Ukraine drew warnings from the Kremlin over encroachment of Russia. Russia’s border is only a few hundred kilometres from Vilnius. Germany moved a Patriot missile battery to the country ahead of the conference. The presence of anti-aircraft guns at such summits is not usual but is a reminder the alliance is in clear-and-present danger mode. The biggest claim to this role at Vilnius was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who performed a decided pivot to shore up the western alliance. That is not to say other states cannot change the mood or indeed the entire outlook at key moments.

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on Nato and Ukraine at Vilnius University, Lithuania. It is both essential for Europe and has just demonstrated it is a pact in which America is the unipolar power. I raise this scene because nothing about Nato is normal, not even its impact on host cities. Metres away the road was under lockdown because US President Joe Biden was going to pass 90 minutes later in his armoured car, known as the Beast. The boy shouldn’t have been there at all. If he had gone any further he would have encountered, slightly hidden by a strip of trees, a mobile anti-aircraft gun. We demand that all these persecutory acts against the Ahmadis be stopped immediately and that all those in prison be released because they are innocent'.On a forest path near the city of Vilnius a teenager zipped on his bike out of an underpass. While the government in Islamabad is silent about these atrocities, the same government is concerned about similar incidents of persecution of Muslims in other countries. The Ahmadiyya community spokesman said: 'These are serious violations of the Ahmadis' religious rights by extremist vigilantes, with the support of state officials, including the police. It did not end there: 13 Ahmadis were arrested, 10 animals were taken into custody and houses of Ahmadi worshippers were illegally searched by the police. A police inspector in Gujrat also announced through a loudspeaker at a mosque that the Ahmadis are not 'real' Muslims and that it is essential to be so before slaughtering an animal in a sacred ritual. There were also four occasions when Ahmadis were prevented from praying for the Eid and 28 people were fined. These are real violations of fundamental rights under Article 20 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the 2021 ruling by the country's Supreme Court that Ahmadis can practise their faith freely.ĭespite this, there were 23 complaints filed at various police stations to prevent Ahmadis from ritual animal slaughter for Eid ul Adha, against 89 vigilantes simply reported for intimidating and harassing Ahmadis and preventing the ritual of animal sacrifice. Most of the Ahmadis remaining in Pakistan have also been deprived by these 'executioners' of the opportunity to pray during the sacred feast of Eid ul Adha (feast commemorating the sacrifice of Abraham). The Ahmadi religious community is more than 100 years old and was founded in 1889 in Qadian, in present-day Punjab in India, by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a Muslim mystic.īut while the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at is known for its motto 'Love for all, hate for none', this community is hated - and persecuted - in Pakistan to such an extent that they cannot profess their faith even within the walls of their homes. Imprisoned for blasphemy, abused, killed because they are considered a heresy of Islam. There are 100 million of them in the world, scattered on every continent, but most are far from their places of origin: the border area between Punjab and Pakistan, where they continue to be severely persecuted. Throughout Pakistan extremist 'vigilantes' have been marking the homes of community members with the approval and sometimes the participation of the police. Chenab Nagar (AsiaNews) - Incidents of forcibly stopping the Ahmadi cult have increased considerably this year.