Breaking: Pakistan | Ahmadi Mulsim man attacked in Lahore, in critical condition

Septembet 7th is the anniversary of anti-Ahmadiyya constitutional amendment that in 1974 declared the members of the Ahmadiyya community to be non-Muslims.

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By Imran Jattala | September 7, 2011

LAHORE: An Ahmadi Muslim man was shot several times and is reported in critical condition at a local hospital, it was reported late Wednesday afternoom.

According to the initial reports Bashir Ahmad, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Lahore was going through a major surgical procedure to save his life.

Preliminary reports indicate Ahmad received three bullets to his back and one in the neck.

The shooting took place right opposite to a mosque controlled by Khatme Nuwwat, an anti Ahmadiyya extremist group.


In January of 2010 an Ahmadī Muslim was murdered in the same area of Rachna Town.

Bashir Ahmad has been receiving constant death threats from Khatam-e-Nabuwwat group for the past two years, it was reported.

Septembet 7th is the anniversary of the notorious anti-Ahmadiyya constitutional amendment that, in 1974, declared the members of the Ahmadiyya community to be non-Muslims.

Building on the spirit of the constitutional amendment, later, Gen Ziaul-Haq enacted ordinance XX, effectively outlawing all faith-based part of every Ahmadi Muslim's life in Pakistan.

In addition to scores charges under the country's infamous blasphemy laws, literally thousand of Ahmadi Muslims have been arrested and convicted for 'posing' as Muslims and languished in prisons for years, and some for decades.

The anti-Ahmadiyya extremists’ group Khatam-e-Nabuwwat group celebrates the day as ‘victory day’ every year.

Emboldened by the enactment of the 1984 anti-Ahmadiyya ordinance, several extremist clerics in Pakistan joined forces to form Majlis-e Tahffuz-e Khatm-e Nubuwwat, an extremist organization whose stated purpose is to bring an end to 'Qadiniyyat,' a term used to describe Ahmadiyya community because of its founding-roots in Qadian, a small town in Punjab, India.

The group held its usual hate ritual, an annual anti-Ahmadiyya conference, today in Chanab Nagar’ where they retuinely declare Ahmadis to be Murtad (apostate) and Wajibul Qatl (fit to be killed).

Mullah Ilyas Chinioti, a member of the Punjab Assembly (MPA, PML-N) and a founding member and president of Intl. KhatameNabuwat Movement addressed the Khatme Nabuwat conference today in Chanab Nagar, Rabwah.

The groups activities have been openly supported by the Punjab government and the ruling political party, Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Shareef group.

The attack today in Lahore comes at the heels of an other killing in Faisalabad where another Ahmaid Muslim, Naseem Ahmad Butt, was murdered two days ago by the student wing of the same extremist group.

There has been a renewed Anti-Ahmadiyya hate campaigns by certain religious extremist groups prompting their followers to kill Ahmadi Muslims.

About two months ago Anti-Ahmadiyya pamphlets were distributed in the city calling for the killing of Ahmadis 'in the open and on the streets' by the extremist organization Khatam-e Nubuwwat.

As result of the hate campaigns against Ahmadis several members of the community have been killed throughout Pakistan.

Neither the federal government nor the Punjab authorities reported any action taken against the culprits who are initiating the hate campaign in the Punjab.

The government’s inaction has emboldened the extremist’s actions against the Ahmadiyya community, many rights groups have reported.

  -- Ahmadiyya Times
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