On 14 August 2025, what should have been a day of national celebration turned violent for Ahmadi Muslims in District Faisalabad. Under the guise of Independence Day processions, a mob launched a targeted campaign of hate in the jurisdiction of Dijkot Police Station.
The crowd chanted anti-Ahmadi slogans and then escalated attacks from verbal abuse to violence. Stones were thrown at Ahmadi Muslim homes, windows were shattered, and families took shelter in fear. Several individuals were assaulted by the mob including a youth struck in the head with a brick and others beaten with sticks, leaving multiple injured.
Video footage (https://x.com/PressSectionSAA/status/1956061206575214696 )from the incident shows a large gathering of individuals surrounding Ahmadi Muslim properties amid hateful chants and slogans.
The mob then attacked two Ahmadi Muslim mosques in 275 Kartarpur, Faisalabad. Minarets were torn down, and one mosque was set on fire and the destruction continued for two hours with no police intervention.
This incident is part of a broader pattern of escalating persecution against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan with 4 Ahmadi Muslims martyred this year alone and more than 50 Ahmadi Muslim mosques attacked since 2023.
Ahmadi Muslims continue to face harassment, and routine violence, often with impunity for the perpetrators. The fact that such acts occurred in full view of the public, and within a police jurisdiction, raises urgent concerns about state protection and complicity.
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK.
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Categories: Ahmadis, Ahmadis And Pakistan, Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Asia, Pakistan, Pakistan Inter-Faith
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For Ahmadis in Pakistan, yesterday’s Independence Day celebrations were marred by multiple mob attacks on two Ahmadi mosques and Ahmadi homes in Dist Faisalabad. Local Ahmadis were also physically assaulted. As is usual in all such attacks, the police offered no protection.
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