According to the Police, more than two dozen members of the Ahmadi community, including children, were taken to the “protective custody” as a Moba gathered outside their place of worship in the city of Arrejani, according to the police.
Police General Inspector of the Inspector General of the West Zone (DIG) Irfan Ali Baloch said Dawn.com: “Several Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers gathered outside the place of Ahmadi worship in the city of Armjani.
“They demanded that the Ahmadis offer Friday sentences and use Islam symbols,” said the excavation. “Anticipating a possible situation of law and order, the police took 25 Ahmadis in protective custody.”
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Ahmadi community, Amir Mehmood, said the police arrested 25 Ahmadis, including eight children, and took them to Khawaja Ajmer Nagri police station.
“For some time, TLP workers gathered outside the Adoration Center, demanding the arrest and sealing of such places,” he told Dawn.comAdding that members practiced religious rites within closed buildings and wondered how a “crime” could be.
He said that stopping Ahmadis from his place of worship to carry out his rituals “was a serious violation of human rights and the constitution of Pakistan, which allowed faith freely to practice.”
Dig Baloch denied the spokesman’s accusations that the faithful had been arrested. He added that the police would obtain a “legal opinion” about the place of worship.
The Pakistan Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said Tuesday that 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 HRCP also talked about the “arbitrary” arrest of Ahmadis, alleged desecration of their graves and the vulnerability of Hindu women and Christians to forced conversion.
The report, entitled Under siege: freedom of religion or belief in 2023-24He said that more than 750 people were in prison for blasphemy charges as of October last year. He documented at least four faith -based murders, three of which went to the Ahmadi community.
HRCP observed a “growing weapons of blasphemy laws against the Ahmadis”, with cases often initiated by the officials themselves responsible for enforcing the law.
According to the report, “police officers presented four cases against Ahmadis in Punjab, reflecting an institutional bias against the community.”
