Asian Human Rights Commission: Once again violence against the Ahmadi community has erupted in Punjab province. As the election are approaching (May 11) this recent outburst is seen as an attempt to influence the voters to support fundamentalists and right wing parties.
On 28th April 2013 supporters of Khatme Nabuwwat (the movement against the Ahmadi sect of Islam) raided an Ahmadi Prayer Centre in Gulshan-e-Ravi, Lahore, and shouted abusive slogans against the Founder of the Community and members were threatened horribly. Later, the Police arrived and instead of protecting the Ahmadis and securing their safety and their freedom to worship, they entered the Ahmadi Centre premises forcefully and searched the whole place without producing any legal authority to do so. The Police ravaged the Community’s library taking away most of the books and arrested eight people including a woman and a 12-year-old child. They were taken to the Gulshan-e-Ravi Police Station followed by the ringleaders of the mob where First Information Report was registered on the basis of false accusations.
The mob was led by the brother of a top Pakistani Muslim cleric in the company of some police officers. At the time of the attack some 40 Ahmadis were in the mosque when the attackers, excited to violence and led by Hasan Mavia, the brother of Allama Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, and a local leader of a political party, PML-N, arrived with the policemen.
Allama Tahir Ashrafi is the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council (the organization of Islamic scholars) and his younger brother, Hasan Mavia is a well known campaigner against the Ahmadis. The PML-N local leader, Abdul Aziz, is also an activist of the Khatme Nabuwwat.
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