Radical Islamists in Pakistan allegedly attacked and demolished an over 100-year-old worship place of the Minority Ahmadi Neighborhood within the Punjab province, the police stated on Monday, Apri 17, 2023.
The incident occurred on Sunday, April 16, 2023, on the 118-year-old Ahmadi worship place within the Sargodha district of the province.
“A superb variety of employees of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Sunday gathered outdoors the worship place of the Ahmadi Neighborhood in Ghooghiat in Sargodha district, some 200 kilometres from Lahore,” a police official informed PTI on Monday.
“They chanted slogans towards Ahmadis, venting out their anger for constructing minarets at their worship place,” he added.
In accordance with the TLP, the Ahmadi worship place was constructed like a mosque, the official stated. Members of the minority neighborhood current needed to scale partitions to avoid wasting their lives, the official stated.
The miscreants destroyed the 118-year-old worship place of Ahmadis, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Punjab official Amir Mahmood informed PTI.
The Pakistani authorities doesn’t contemplate Ahmadis to be Muslims, and the Ahmadis are usually not allowed to name themselves Muslims in Pakistan by a legislation handed in 1974.
“Attacking and demolishing Ahmadi worship locations by mobs and authorities officers is a blatant violation of Pakistan’s Structure and Supreme Courtroom’s resolution of 2014,” he stated, including that the persecution of the Ahmadi neighborhood has been on a excessive in numerous areas of Pakistan.
The Punjab province has been the centre of it, and the extent of those actions is such that the Ahmadi neighborhood is just not left alone even within the holy month of Ramadan, Mahmood added.
Final month Police in Punjab province demolished minarets of a 70-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi neighborhood allegedly beneath the stress of radical clerics, in accordance with a spokesman for the minority neighborhood.
A current fact-finding mission led by the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan (HRCP) underscored an alarming uptick within the persecution of members of the minority Ahmadi neighborhood within the province.
Minorities, particularly Ahmadis, are susceptible in Pakistan and are sometimes focused by non secular extremists.
In Pakistan, round 10 million out of the 220 million inhabitants are non-Muslims. In accordance with the 2017 census, Hindus represent the most important non secular minority (5 million) in Pakistan.
Christians make up the second largest non secular minority, with virtually the identical quantity (4.5 million), and their focus is generally in city Sindh, Punjab and components of Balochistan. The Ahmadis, Sikhs and Parsi are additionally among the many notable non secular minorities in Pakistan.
