Source/Credit: The Express Tribune / By Rana Tanveer / September 8, 2011
Relatives allege he was targeted for his religious beliefs. NEFER SEHGAL/FILE
LAHORE: A man, who was later identified to be an Ahmadi, was critically injured after being shot three times in Ferozewala of Sheikhupura district on Wednesday just as religious parties observed the ‘Tahafuz Khatam-e-Nabuwat Day’.
Relatives of the victim, Chaudhry Basheer Ahmed, alleged that he was targeted because of his religious
beliefs as a result of the intensification of a hate campaign against Ahmadis in the area.
Tahafuz Khatam-e-Nabuwat Day marks the anniversary of the day in 1974, when Pakistan’s parliament declared Ahmadis to be a non-Muslim minority.
Basheer Ahmed was shot once in his abdomen and twice in his neck with a 30-bore pistol at close range.
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