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Pakistan ahmadiyya community: Religious extremists in Pakistan allegedly stopped members of the Ahmedia minority community from offering Eid prayers in at least seven cities. In Punjab, the police arrested two Ahmedia people and registered a case against three others for trying to sacrifice animals during Eid-ul-Azha (Bakrid). Before Bakrid, it was announced that if any Ahmedia Muslim sacrifices any animal, then he will be fined 5 lakhs.
The Jamaat-e-Ahdiya Pakistan (JAP) claimed that the radical Islamic party-Tehreek-e-Labback Pakistan (TLP) also forced two Ahmedia people to abandon their religious beliefs, who did the same for fear of killing the crowd. In recent months, a group of religious extremists have been preventing members of the Ahmedia community from offering prayers at their worship sites on Friday.
Eid prayers were stopped in Karachi
According to the Jamaat-e-Ahmedia Pakistan (JAP), Ahmadiyas were stopped from offering Eid prayers in Khushab, Mirpur Khas, Lodharan, Bhakkar, Rajanpur, Umarkot, Larkana and Karachi. He said that religious extremists, along with the local administration, stopped the Ahmadiyya community from offering Eid prayers within their places that offer their prayers. He said that Giri Shahu, the oldest Ahmadi worship site of Lahore, was surrounded by TLP workers on Eid on Saturday and demanded the police to seal it. He said that the police took action on his call and sealed the place of offering Ahmadiya’s prayers.
Efforts to exclude Islamic identity
Efforts to exclude the Ahmadiyya community from Islamic identity have been going on for the last several decades, but thus the police intervention on private religious tradition questions Pakistan’s democratic structure.