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.

Pakistan Ahmadiya Muslims: The festival of Eid ul-Azha i.e. Bakrid is being celebrated with pomp around the world. This is an important festival for the people of the Muslim community, in which Muslims sacrifice the goat after offering morning prayers. In Islamic countries, this festival is celebrated on a very large scale, but if we talk about Pakistan in India, then only a particular Muslim class here is not allowed to celebrate this festival. The government here has banned the sacrifice of goat on a particular Muslim class. In such a situation, let us know which is this Muslim class and why it is not allowed to celebrate Bakrid?

These Muslims cannot celebrate Bakrid

Ahmadiyya Muslims living in Pakistan are facing many challenges, one of which is a ban on celebrating Muslim festivals. According to the information, Muslims living in Punjab and Sindh province have been banned from sacrificing goats. Even the Muslims of this community cannot sacrifice goat inside the Charhadi wall. Notification has also been issued by the administration for this. Apart from this, people of Ahmadiyya Muslim community are prohibited from publicly reading Quran, making mosques and speaking salute.

Why is there a stop and how much punishment

Let me tell you, in the 1974 constitution amendment in Pakistan, Ahmadiyya Muslims were excluded from Muslim recognition. The general Muslims here consider the people of Ahmadiyya community to be non-Muslims and after following Muslim traditions they get to jail. Apart from this, there is a provision of punishment like a fine of five lakhs for sacrificing goat on the occasion of Bakrid.

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Pakistan ahmadiyya Muslim: Ahmadiyya Muslim community living in Pakistan had made a historic contribution in the creation of the country by supporting Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League. Today, in the same country, they have become victims of religious, social and legal oppression. Eid-ul-Azha is to be celebrated on 2025 (June 7) in Pakistan, but for the Ahmadiyya community, this festival has now become a symbol of fear and pressure.

Police and administration in Punjab and Sindh provinces are threatening the Ahmedia community. The affidavit and compensation bonds are detained to take a signature. Even a ban on sacrifice within the boundary wall is being threatened. In the affidavit, it is written that the Eid-ul-Azha not taking an oath not taking part in any religious ritual. Failure to do so is involved in imposing a fine of 5 lakh PKR. This order is being implemented on the basis of a notification of 2023. According to the report of Lahore Friday Times, it is unconstitutional to forcibly sign such an affidavit and is out of the jurisdiction of local authorities.

Human rights violation in Pakistan
The Ahmadiyya community was excluded from Muslim recognition in the 1974 constitution amendment in Pakistan. People of Ahmadiyya community have been banned publicly to read the Quran, offer Namaz, even to make mosques to speak salute. If they do so, they are put in jail.
Ahmadiyya community does not get peace from the tomb
Tehreek-e-Labbac Pakistan (TLP) and TTP sabotaged more than 100 Ahmadiya tombs by TLP in Khushab, Punjab, March 2025. TTPs and other extremist organizations are constantly targeting Ahmadis. According to Amnesty International, at least 36 arrests were made in June 2024 to prevent Eid rituals.