Shooter in Ahmadi worship place attack identified
A Correspondent Published October 12, 2025 Updated about 4 hours ago
CHINIOT: A shooter who attacked an Ahmadiyya worship place in Chenab Nagar on Friday and was killed by a private security deployed there has been identified.
As per his CNIC, suspect’s name is Sohaib Bin Zaigham, son of Hafeezur Rehman Zaigham, a resident of Jampur, Rajanpur district.
Police is yet to find any clue to his links with defunct extremist organisations. He was found guilty in an electricity theft case and an FIR was also registered against him in Lahore under section 489-F of PPC in which he had been declared a proclaimed offender.
The counter terrorism police station in Faisalabad has registered a case of the attack under sections 324, 427, 353, 186 and 13-2-a of the Arms Amendment Ordinance, 2015 and 7-ATA, on an application of constable Ali Hassan also posted there.
Published in Dawn, October 12th, 2025
ssource https://www.dawn.com/news/1948346/shooter-in-ahmadi-worship-place-attack-identified
Shooter killed after Ahmadis’ worship place attacked in Chiniot
Imran Gabol Published October 11, 2025 Updated a day ago
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LAHORE: Six security guards were injured when an attacker opened fire outside an Ahmadi community’s worship place in Chenab Nagar, Chiniot district, on Friday.
Shortly after the shooting, two policemen deployed on the opposite side of the road retaliated and killed him.
CCTV footage showed a suspect carrying a pistol approached the worship place, Baitul Mehdi, in Rabwah and opened fire on the security guards, who were volunteers from the community. Six guards were injured, but they managed to close the main gate of the worship place.
The injured guards were shifted to a nearby hospital where four were reported to be stable while two remained critical. Police shifted the body of the attacker to the morgue.
Attack condemned
Ahmadi community spokesperson Aamir Mahmood condemned the attack, saying that continuous hate speeches were being made against the community. He urged the state to take notice of such hateful rhetoric and take strict action against those responsible. He demanded effective measures to ensure the safety of Ahmadi community members.
Chiniot DPO Abdullah Ahmad told Dawn that the worship place had been attacked by a gunman, resulting in injuries to six private security guards.
He said police and the guards returned fire, killing the attacker on the spot. One of the guards was in critical condition, while five were stable, he added. He said the attacker had arrived in a car along with another person. His identification card was recovered from the vehicle.
Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2025
source https://www.dawn.com/news/1948044/shooter-killed-after-ahmadis-worship-place-attacked
Categories: Ahmadis And Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Police, terror, terrorists
Pakistani Media cannot call an Ahmadiyya Mosque a MOSQUE. ‘worship place’ sounds rather comic to me….
Attack condemned by a member of the Ahmadiyya Community. Fine. Where is the condemnation by the Pakistani Authorities? Just silence? Or am I missing something?