A man was allegedly murdered when a few hundred workers from a religious party assaulted a place of cult that belonged to the Ahmadi community in the Saddar de Karachi area to avoid observing religious rituals, according to the police.
Talking with Dawn.comSyed Asad Raza, Syed Asad Raza, Syed Asad Raza, Syed Asad Raza, said: “[Around] 400 Tehreek-I-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers gathered in the room near the mobile market. “
He said the police were already deployed there following similar incidents in the areas of Shah Latif, Armejani and Khokhrapar of the metropolis. Dig Raza said that the police, the rangers and the district administration took quick measures and gave protection to the members of the Ahmadi community present within the place of worship.
However, he said that an incident occurred near the Autopartes market, located near the community hall, where “he was supposed to be hit by TLP workers,” he added that he was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
The excavation said the Ahmadi community claimed the deceased as its member associated with the place of worship. “The police are determining the veracity of the statements, while CCTV images are also obtained,” he said.
The spokesman for the Ahmadí community, Amir Mehmood, said Dawn.com That, “the deceased, who was a known figure of the community, passed through the area about 100-150 meters from the place of worship when TLP members recognized him and began to hit him, which led to his death.”
Later, the Preedy Station Station officer (SHO) Shabbir Husain confirmed Dawn.com That a man, identified as Laeeq Cheema, 46, was “filming TLP workers near the Hashu Center when the mafia began to hit him and killed him.”
The Sho confirmed that the deceased belonged to the Ahmadi community. “We call a prison truck to move between 45 and 50 members of the community within the community hall to a safe place,” he said.
Mehmood, however, said he did not know that the deceased was filming a video of the mafia.
Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said it was “horrified” by the incident, which he denounced as a “failure of the law and order” that was a “reminder of the continuous complicity of the State in the systematic persecution of a besieged community.”
He said that the perpetrators of the attack in Saddar must be quickly tracked, arrested and processed “without collapsing the pressure of the right end of freeing those responsible.”
Last month, the HRCP said it had observed a growing trend of attacks led by the mafia against homes of families belonging to religious minorities, as well as their places of worship.
The HRCP also spoke of the “arbitrary detention” of Ahmadis, the “desecration of their tombs” and the “vulnerability of Hindu and Christian women” to forced conversion.
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.
A key finding of the report is that misinformation in social networks was the spark behind most cases of blasphemy registered.
HRCP observed a “growing weapons of blasphemy laws against the Ahmadis”, with cases often initiated by the officials themselves responsible for enforcing the law.
Additional Imran Gabol reports.
