A cleric in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been arrested after openly making statements against the Pakistani army and declaring support for India. Maulvi Gulzar of Mardan district said that ‘Hindus did not keep us as brutally as Pakistani soldiers kept us in jail. If India attacks Pakistan, we will support India.

Open criticism on army and intelligence agencies

According to reports, Pakistani intelligence agencies detained Maulvi Gulzar after he criticized the army and intelligence agencies at a meeting. He claimed in his speech that all the jailed Ulemas took an oath on the Quran that if India attacks Pakistan, they will support India. He also said that ‘No Hindu or Indian soldier has behaved as brutally with Muslims and Madarsa students as the Pakistani Army. Indian Army is better than Pakistani Army.

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Pakistani Maulvi says:

-Was detained by the Pakistani Army/ISI

-Many other Mullas imprisoned as well

-We were tortured everyday

-Hence we prayed to Allah, bring Hindu rule to Pakistan to free us from Paki Army.

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Growing dissatisfaction and broken trust

The incident exposes growing discontent in Pakistan’s tribal and border areas, where the state’s grip has long been weak. Organizations like TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) dominate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and surrounding areas and have made many areas no-go zones for the army.

Big sign in the eyes of analysts

Analysts believe that this statement of Maulvi Gulzar shows the decline in the credibility of the army and the increasing anger among the general public. Religious leaders openly supporting India in this way is a sign of weakening of both Pakistan’s national unity and the hold of the army. This incident highlights Pakistan’s internal fractures and the limitations of its security apparatus, which could pose a major threat to the country’s stability.

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.