Two suspects have been arrested for the alleged murder of an Ahmadi man and hurting another in the Kasur district of Punjab, police said on Friday.
The first information report was presented at the Kasur Police Station of Saddar Phool Nagar under sections 148 (disturbances, armed with a mortal weapon), 149 (each member of the illegal assembly guilty of a crime committed in prosecution of common object) and 302 (murder) of the Pakistan Criminal Code.
The plaintiff said that his son and his nephew were fired by five assailants, adding that his nephew died of his wounds while he was taken to receive medical treatment while his son was injured and sent to Lahore to receive treatment.
Kassur district police officer, Essa Khan Dawn.com That later, “two out of five nominees were arrested, while raids are made to stop the other suspects.”
He said that “one of the suspects is a member of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which he had tried to use religious feelings to solve personal scores in 2022. However, the current incident occurred due to personal enmity.”
A statement from a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya community, Aamir Mahmood, said that “extremists opened fire in Bhalir Kasur, killing a young man named Muhammad Asif, 19, while another person was seriously injured.”
The statement added that a “campaign against the place of worship of Ahmadiyya had been happening in the area for a long time, and harassment was carried out.”
“The extremist elements had been harassing Ahmadis in several ways in the Bhalir area of the Kasur district during the last two years,” said the statement, added that a campaign against his place of worship was launched and demands were made to dismantle it.
“The direct shot had been carried out twice before yesterday’s incident, which damaged the walls of many houses,” he added as he listed previous instances of attacks against members of the Ahmadi community in the area.
Expressing concern about the growing incidents of violence against members of their community, Mahmood demanded that higher authorities protect Ahmadis according to the law.
“While they protect Ahmadis according to the law, those who carry out hate campaigns should be taken before justice,” said the spokesman, according to the statement.
Earlier this month, a 46 -year -old businessman was lynching when a few hundred supporters of the TLP Rings Party assaulted a place of worship that belonged to the Ahmadí community in the Saddar area of Karachi on Friday to avoid observing religious rituals, according to officials.
Last month, the Pakistan Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said it had observed a growing trend of attacks led by the mafia against the homes of families that belong to religious minorities, as well as their places of worship.
The report, entitled under Siege: freedom of religion or belief in 2023-24, said more than 750 people were in prison for blasphemy charges, starting in October last year. He documented at least four faith -based murders, three of which went to the Ahmadi community.
