Two days after 600 Ahmadis in Pakistan had been booked by means of the police, the minarets in their mosque had been demolished by means of the police on 14th July. This comes after the novel Islamist birthday party, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) warned the police that it could assault the Ahmadi mosque at Kala Gujran in Jhelum, Punjab, in the event that they didn’t demolish the similar.
A central authority authentic from Pakistan’s Punjab reportedly stated that the leaders of the Ahmadi group had been summoned by means of the police and had been instructed that the legislation does now not let them construct a spot of worship. The police raided the Ahmadi mosque and demolished it at the night time of 14th July. The Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan reportedly instructed PTI {that a} marketing campaign in opposition to the group has been introduced by means of TLP.
Ahmadi chief Amir Mahmood stated that TLP chief Asim Ashfaq Rizvi has again and again threatened to assault Ahmadi mosques in Jhelum if the police fail to spoil them by means of Muharram on the finish of July. “As a substitute of shielding the Ahmadis, the police introduced down the minarets of the Ahmadis’ position of worship to thrill the hate-mongers and extremist components. This example is unlucky and a transparent violation of the rights of the Ahmadi group,” Mahmood stated.
On thirteenth July, the Pakistani police booked greater than 600 other folks of the Ahmadi group for blasphemy and stopped them from practicing their religion. “The contributors of the Ahmadi group can not even apply their religion inside the 4 partitions in their homes in Pakistan. This could also be a gross violation of the Ultimate Court docket’s ruling,” the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan stated in a remark.
A number of circumstances had been filed in opposition to the group on flimsy fees together with that of blasphemy. An FIR used to be lodged in opposition to the Ahmadi group on eleventh July on grounds of blasphemy for construction a mosque in Sindh. Ultimate month, DSP Hafizabad issued a prison understand to the entire police stations to make sure that no Ahmadiyya Muslim plays the ritual sacrifice referred to as Qurbani throughout the Eid-al-Adha celebrations.
Previous this yr, on second February, an Ahmadi mosque in Pakistan’s Karachi used to be vandalised proper in entrance of the police which used to be a mute spectator. On sixteenth April this yr, an Ahmadi mosque in Punjab’s Ghooghiat village used to be destroyed by means of a mob. The purported video of the incident has been shared on YouTube.
Alternatively, as a substitute of elevating the problem of their own group, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Neighborhood (AMC) frame is as a substitute engaged in combating for the Palestinian reason.
On 7 July 2023, His Holiness highlighted the continuing oppression of Palestinian Muslims, the most recent incident of Quran burning in Sweden and the French riots following the police killing of teen Nahel Merzouk.
When it comes to those incidents, His Holiness stated the one approach for… percent.twitter.com/62F8I0W086
— Press Ahmadiyya (@pressahmadiyya) July 9, 2023
Significantly, Pakistan, for which Ahmadiyya Muslims voted in uniformity within the Nineteen Forties, does now not acknowledge Ahmadiyyas as Muslims and bars them from such id. Within the Nineteen Seventies, Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan had been declared non-Muslims and the provisions within the Pakistani Charter don’t permit them to spot as or do anything else which permits them to establish as Muslims.
