Just about 50 graves belonging to the Ahmadis were allegedly desecrated via police and Muslim clerics for the use of Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a member of an organisation representing the minority group stated on Monday.
Jamaat Ahmadiya Punjab spokesperson Aamir Mahmood stated {that a} staff of folks in Premkot, district Hafizabad, some 110 kms from Lahore, approached the police complaining that the Islamic verses are inscribed at the tombstones of plenty of graves within the Ahmadis graveyard.
The crowd threatened that the Ahmadis can not show Islamic verses/symbols on their houses or graves, he stated.
“On Sunday, police in conjunction with native clerics and attorneys reached the Ahmadi graveyard and demolished the tombstones of 45 graves inscribed with Islamic verses,” Mahmood instructed PTI.
The enraged extremists additionally warned the Ahmadis dwelling within the space to take away Islamic verses displayed on their properties in a different way they’ll demolish them too, he added.
Alternatively, police stated the tombstones from Ahmadi graves were got rid of at the software of a gaggle of attorneys and warned Ahmadis to not use the similar someday.
Suggest Amir Nazir, Mehr Asif, Ali Raza and others additionally filed an software for registration of FIR in opposition to the participants of Ahmadi group of the world below blasphemy rules for writing Islamic verses at the tombstones. The police, alternatively, didn’t entertain the request.
“The persecution performed in opposition to the Ahmadi group in Pakistan isn’t just restricted to those that are alive, however the Ahmadis that experience gave up the ghost also are no longer secure of their graves. Police motion in opposition to the Ahmadi group in Pakistan is an act of violation of fundamental human rights,” Mahmood stated.
There have been plenty of such incidents in numerous portions of Pakistan through which the graves of the Ahmadi group participants had been desecrated via spiritual zealots up to now.
Pakistan’s Parliament in 1974 declared the Ahmadi group as non-Muslims. A decade later, they had been banned from calling themselves Muslims. They’re banned from preaching and from travelling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage.
In Pakistan, round 10 million out of the 220 million inhabitants are non-Muslims. The minorities within the conservative Muslim-majority Pakistan steadily bitch of harassment via the extremists.