Pakistan: Police disinter body of an Ahmadi Muslim at extremist’s behest.

Without regards to the Ahmadis’ right to due process of the law, police personal immediately took it upon themselves and exhumed the dead body of Shehzad.

File photo: Anti-Ahmadiyya rally in Punjab

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Source/Credit: Express | @Kunri | Sargodha, Punjab
By Ahmadiyya Times | November 1, 2010

Sargodha, Punjab: Burial of a local Ahmadi man, Shehzad, caused uproar in the town last week, an Urdu newspaper reported.

 An extremist faction of the radical Islamists in the town of Sargodha decided to lay their ‘for certain Muslims only’ claim to a local public cemetery after the burial took place by the family members of the Ahmadi man.

According to the newspaper report, Shahzad, a resident of Satellite Town had passed away a day before and the family buried the dead later in the evening in a remote public cemetery located in Chak 19-N.

Upon learning about the burial the next day, several extremists took their protest to the streets and demanded ‘action’ from Sadr police station.

The radical group claimed the public cemeteries are for certain Muslim factions only.


Without regards to the Ahmadis’ right to due process of the law, police personal immediately took it upon themselves to exhume the dead body of Shehzad.

The police handed the exhumed body to the mourners without any concern for the public health and safety - leaving the family to scramble for an alternative cemetery and reburial arrangements for the decaying corpse.

According to ThePersecution.Org, an online source about persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community,  this is not the first time that a local radicals' group has forced exhumation of an Ahmadis' dead body.

Many human rights organizations have repeatedly reported about the fate of Ahmadi  Muslims who are regular victims of terrorists and Islamist extremists in Pakistan.

--@kunri

--- Police disinter body of an Ahmadi Muslim at extremist’s behest.