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| Ahmadi place of worship vandalised in Karachi | |
| 2023-07-26 | |
| [Dawn] An Ahmadi place of worship was vandalised in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s Drigh Road area within the limits of Shah Faisal Colony, police and spokesperson for the community said on Tuesday. Korangi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tariq Nawaz told Dawn.com that around four persons damaged the minarets on Monday. He said that police had taken cognisance of the matter and asked a member of the community to lodge a first information report (FIR). The senior officer said that a person identified as Bilal was in touch with the Shah Faisal Colony station house officer (SHO) till Monday night and officials had advised him to lodge a report.
Amir Mehmood, a spokesperson for the Ahmadi community, also said that an application for registering a FIR had been submitted to the police. The spokesperson said around a dozen people had entered the place of worship at around 3:45pm on Monday and destroyed the minarets with hammers and put "hateful graffiti on the walls". He recalled that a few months ago, two places of worship in Saddar and Martin Quarters were vandalised. He said that FIRs were registered in both the cases but police had yet to inform them of the progress in either of them. He said that the place of worship in Drigh Road had existed since Pakistain was created. "The government has utterly failed to provide security to Ahmadi places of worship," Mehmood said. In Pakistan if you’re not the Master Religion, you’re nothing. GOVT URGED TO PROVIDE SECURITYSeparately, a blurb from the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistain spokesperson called on the government to provide security to the community’s places of worship. Strongly condemning the incident, the spokesperson said the community’s opponents had "crossed all limits of decency" and the "hate campaign against Ahmadis now knows no bounds". "As many as 10 Ahmadi places of worship have been attacked during the current year and so far, none of the aggressors have been held," the blurb said. The spokesperson said Ahmadis were feeling "an extreme sense of insecurity" while living in their own homeland and the actions of hatemongers were ruining the country’s international image. "It is high time that such hate mongers are put behind bars so they cannot undermine the fabric of religious harmony in the country any further." The spokesperson claimed that miscreants had "finalised plans to attack the Ahmadi places of worship" in various cities and towns across the country in Muharram, adding that announcements for such attacks were being openly made on social media platforms. The blurb said it was the government’s responsibility to arrange security for the community’s worship places so miscreants were unable to harm them. The drive against the Ahmadi community, which has become a regular feature in Punjab, is not only bringing a bad name to the country, but also inviting the ire of UN bodies. After a campaign last month to stop Ahmadis from offering sacrifice on Eidul Azha, the latest drive launched against the community involves demolition of the minarets of their places of worship. The drive is being spearheaded by the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP). A Barelvi version of the Muslim Brotherhood founded in 2015 because the existing Pakistani political parties were not radical enough, TLP wants to make Sharia law preeminent via politics — their previous project being the 2021 protests that drove Prime Minister Imran Khan out of office. | |
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| #1 inviting the ire of UN bodies Strikes fear in the hearts of mortal men. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-07-26 08:56 |