Members of an extremist group have attacked and desecrated the places of worship belonging to the Ahmadiyya community at multiple localities in Pakistan’s Punjab, community members shared, The Friday Times reported.
Following the recent attacks on the Ahmadi worship place, tensions have taken an upturn as the Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) threatened to raze the minarets of a historic worship place of the Ahmadiyya community, reported Dawn.
Ahmadiyya community in a press release called attacking and demolishing their places of worship by mobs a "blatant violation" of Pakistan's constitution.
The graves of the Ahmadiyya community located at Talwandi Khajoorwali district of Punjab's Gujranwala district were recently desecrated and demolished by Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) radicals. Sources reveal that no complaint was filed by the police in this regard.
In the report, the HRCP fact-finding mission has raised concern over the alarming rise in the persecution of members of the Ahmadiyya community in Gujranwala and surrounding regions, particularly the desecration of their grave sites of worship, as per the Dawn report.
The hatred for the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan is at such a level that they don't celebrate the achievements of their only Nobel prize winner in the Science category, Abdus Salam.
In its report titled A Breach of Faith: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2021-22, HRCP has observed with considerable alarm developments during 2021/22 that belie the state's commitment to freedom of religion or belief.
Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan regularly fall prey to atrocities from the Muslim community, private thugs and the police itself. These incidents keep happening even after a supreme court's order to stop them.
With mob attacks and killings becoming a regular affair against the Ahmadiyya community, Pakistan has become a country where the people of this community are subjected to extensive persecution.
With mob attacks and killings becoming a regular affair against the Ahmadiyya community, Pakistan has become a country where the people of this community are subjected to extensive persecution including hate speech and violence with at least 13 killed and 40 wounded from the community since
Punjab [Pakistan], September 28 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi continued his hate-mongering rhetoric against the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, saying that his party (PML-Q) plans to build a mosque that would be a replica of Istanbul's Blue mosque where "Qai
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 28 (ANI): As the worsening law-and-order situation and the ubiquity of religious fundamentalism in Pakistan, Ahmadiyya have been forced to migrate to other countries in the hope of being treated on equal footing with other people in the society, according to m