Source. The News International via Nasim Malik of Sweden
By Waqar Gillani
The armed men tied the caretakers with ropes and locked them up in the living quarters of the graveyard before they moved on to the graves. The destruction of tombstones went on for about 40 minutes. It was a pre-dawn strike last Monday. Around one and a half dozen masked attackers, equipped with arms, broke into an Ahmadi graveyard in Model Town, one of their main cemeteries in Lahore. After beating up the caretakers and guards on duty, they desecrated around 120 graves. They broke the tombstones as they were carrying the names of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and Kalma Tayyaba.
Ahmadis in Pakistan were declared non-Muslims in 1974 by the then parliament during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s regime. Later, in the 1980s, General Ziaul Haq brought strict laws forbidding Ahmadis to pose as Muslim, read or recite Kalama, Aazan (call for prayers) and Quran, disallowing them to call their worship place ‘mosque’.
I suppose we should be grateful that the security guards were ‘only’ beaten up and not killed.
You are right. Any way my observation is that gradually civic soceity of Pakistan is becoming aware of its atrocities against Ahmadies. May be nation start mending its mind set.