Lahore: There is no sign of stopping the atrocities on Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan. In this series, a businessman from the Ahmadiyya minority community was hacked to death with an axe, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. According to the information given by the police on Friday, this man named Tayyab Ahmed was allegedly murdered because of his faith. Police said 40-year-old Tayyab Ahmed was at his brother's shop in Rawalpindi city, about 275 kilometers from Lahore, when an unidentified man attacked him with an axe.
Warning was given to evacuate the place
Police said that Tayyab Ahmed was seriously injured in the attack by the man. He said Ahmed was taken to hospital where he died. Police said in the initial investigation that it seems that Ahmed was murdered because of his faith. According to Ahmed's brother Tahir Qamar, a few days ago a group of fundamentalist Muslims had attacked his shop by throwing stones. The attackers had warned Tayyab Ahmed and Tahir Qamar to vacate the place as they were Ahmadis.
The minarets of the Ahmadiyya Mosque were demolished
Let us tell you that there are reports of atrocities against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan. Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan had recently said that the police in Pakistan's Punjab province had demolished the minarets of two 70-year-old places of worship of the Ahmadiyya community, allegedly under pressure from religious extremists. This act of demolition took place in Khanewal and Gujranwala. Both the places of worship were built in the early 1950s.
Ahmadis are declared non-Muslims in Pakistan
In August last year, police in Pakistan arrested 6 Ahmadis for allegedly calling themselves Muslims. Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya Pakistan had protested against the arrest of all these people. He had said that activists of the radical Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan were at the forefront of instigating people against innocent Ahmadis and registering FIRs against them. Let us tell you that according to a constitutional amendment in Pakistan in 1974, Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims.
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