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Police bar Ahmadis from entering worship centre

Express Tribune: RAWALPINDI: Complying with the demands of the locals, the police on Friday barred Ahmadis from entering their worship centre in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi.

Leading the locals, businessman Sharjeel Mir told The Express Tribune that three days back on a consensus, it was decided to prevent any sort of worship in the centre.

Mir said that at a meeting called by the locals which was attended by DCO Saqib Zafar, Superintendent of Police Matloob Hussain, ulemas and other officials, it was decided that the worship centre will now be used only as a residence and if their demands are not met, then they will launch a protest.

The businessman also said that a congregational prayer followed by a demonstration outside the worship centre was planned in case the consensus was degraded.

Today, fearing a huge turnover at the expected protest, the police had barred Ahmadis from entering the premises.

A representative of the Ahmaddiya community told The Express Tribune on condition of anonymity that the police officials present there kept telling them that the move had been made to prevent any possible scuffle as a result of the protest.

 

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    • Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah said:

      You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State…We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State…I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in due course Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.

      August 11, 1947 address of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, to the members of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly

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  2. This is bordering on the ridiculous. How can a so-called God believing country (or are they?), like Pakistan stop any people from worshipping? Or has the country adopted communism?

    And can these zealots not see that even if they bar us from our mosques, they cannot stop or put padlocks, etc., on our minds (Alhamdulillah), for these, they cannot control try as they might.

    So, they will NOT stop us from praying, definitely. And they should remember that the prayer of the oppressed and the defenceless is something they should beware of….

    Can they not see that our community never responds to their thuggery in kind? Have they no brains to think with, eyes to see and ears to hear?

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