Ahmadi worship place in Pakistan’s Punjab attacked, demolished by extremists

By Press Trust of India: Radical Islamists in Pakistan allegedly attacked and demolished an over 100-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi neighborhood throughout the Punjab province, police acknowledged on Monday.

The incident occurred on Sunday on the 118-year-old Ahmadi worship place throughout the Sargodha district of the province.

“A good number of workers of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Sunday gathered outside the worship place of the Ahmadi community in Ghooghiat in Sargodha district, some 200 kilometres from Lahore,” a police official suggested PTI on Monday.

“They chanted slogans against Ahmadis, venting out their anger for building minarets at their worship place,” he added.

According to the TLP, the Ahmadi worship place was constructed like a mosque, the official acknowledged. Members of the minority neighborhood present wanted to scale partitions to save lots of plenty of their lives, the official acknowledged.

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The miscreants destroyed the 118-year-old worship place of Ahmadis, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Punjab official Amir Mahmood suggested PTI.

The Pakistani authorities does not ponder Ahmadis to be Muslims, and the Ahmadis often should not allowed to call themselves Muslims in Pakistan by a laws handed in 1974.

“Attacking and demolishing Ahmadi worship places by mobs and government officials is a blatant violation of Pakistan’s Constitution and Supreme Court’s decision of 2014,” he acknowledged, together with that the persecution of the Ahmadi neighborhood has been on a extreme in a number of areas of Pakistan.

The Punjab province has been the centre of it, and the extent of these actions is such that the Ahmadi neighborhood is not left alone even throughout the holy month of Ramadan, Mahmood added.

Last month Police in Punjab province demolished minarets of a 70-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi neighborhood allegedly beneath the pressure of radical clerics, according to a spokesman for the minority neighborhood.

A present fact-finding mission led by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) underscored an alarming uptick throughout the persecution of members of the minority Ahmadi neighborhood throughout the province.

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Minorities, notably Ahmadis, are prone in Pakistan and are generally centered by religious extremists.

In Pakistan, spherical 10 million out of the 220 million inhabitants are non-Muslims. According to the 2017 census, Hindus characterize the most important religious minority (5 million) in Pakistan.

Christians make up the second-largest religious minority, with nearly the an identical amount (4.5 million), and their focus is mostly in metropolis Sindh, Punjab and parts of Balochistan. The Ahmadis, Sikhs and Parsi are moreover among the many many notable religious minorities in Pakistan.