Islamist mob desecrated an Ahmadi mosque in Karachi Pakistan.unknown persons attacked an Ahmadi mosque in Karachi, breaking its minarets. According to locals, the attackers were from the extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
three thugs entered the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque on Martin Road in Karachi, Pakistan, and desecrated two of its minarets. “The upper portion of the minaret,” the International Human Rights Committee reports, “has been smashed to bits. The attackers left behind the ladder and a sledgehammer. They fled as soon as the police arrived. This is the third desecration of an Ahmadi Muslim Mosque this month.”
since 1947, Pakistan’s Ahmadi community had faced persistent systematic discrimination, harassment and attacks. This started to take place after the then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto introduced a Constitutional Amendment which specifically targeted the community by declaring them non-Muslims. An ordinance was introduced in 1984 by General Zia-ul-Haq further stripped the community of the right to identify themselves as Muslims and the freedom to practice their religion freely.
Tehrik-e-Labbik is an extremist Sunni group whose aim is to protect Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws and punish blasphemers. Evolved in 2015 out of a protest campaign, the movement sought release of Mumtaz Qadri, a police guard who assassinated Pakistan’s Punjab governor Salman Taseer in 2011 over his calls to reform blasphemy legislation. Qadri was later executed.
In Pakistan, there have been a growing number of attacks on minorities including Hindus, Christians, Shias and Ahmadis.
