https://indianexpress.com/article/world/ahmadi-graves-desecrated-police-pakistan-7761423/
Nearly 50 graves belonging to the Ahmadis have been allegedly desecrated by police and Muslim clerics for using Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a member of an organisation representing the minority community said on Monday.
Jamaat Ahmadiya Punjab spokesperson Aamir Mahmood said that a group of people in Premkot, district Hafizabad, some 110 kms from Lahore, approached the police complaining that the Islamic verses are inscribed on the tombstones of a number of graves in the Ahmadis graveyard.
The group threatened that the Ahmadis cannot display Islamic verses/symbols on their homes or graves, he said.
“On Sunday, police along with local clerics and lawyers reached the Ahmadi graveyard and demolished the tombstones of 45 graves inscribed with Islamic verses,” Mahmood told PTI.
The enraged extremists also warned the Ahmadis living in the area to remove Islamic verses displayed on their houses otherwise they will demolish them too, he added.
On the other hand, police said the tombstones from Ahmadi graves have been removed on the application of a group of lawyers and warned Ahmadis not to use the same in the future.
Advocate Amir Nazir, Mehr Asif, Ali Raza and others also filed an application for registration of FIR against the members of Ahmadi community of the area under blasphemy laws for writing Islamic verses on the tombstones. The police, however, did not entertain the request….
Nearly 50 graves belonging to the Ahmadis have been allegedly desecrated by police and Muslim clerics for using Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a member of an organisation representing the minority community said on Monday.
Jamaat Ahmadiya Punjab spokesperson Aamir Mahmood said that a group of people in Premkot, district Hafizabad, some 110 kms from Lahore, approached the police complaining that the Islamic verses are inscribed on the tombstones of a number of graves in the Ahmadis graveyard.
The group threatened that the Ahmadis cannot display Islamic verses/symbols on their homes or graves, he said.
“On Sunday, police along with local clerics and lawyers reached the Ahmadi graveyard and demolished the tombstones of 45 graves inscribed with Islamic verses,” Mahmood told PTI.
The enraged extremists also warned the Ahmadis living in the area to remove Islamic verses displayed on their houses otherwise they will demolish them too, he added.
On the other hand, police said the tombstones from Ahmadi graves have been removed on the application of a group of lawyers and warned Ahmadis not to use the same in the future.
Advocate Amir Nazir, Mehr Asif, Ali Raza and others also filed an application for registration of FIR against the members of Ahmadi community of the area under blasphemy laws for writing Islamic verses on the tombstones. The police, however, did not entertain the request….
