Monday, December 5, 2016

Pakistan: The Guardian headline jinxed -- Ahmadiyya offices in Rabwah raided, staff beaten, arrested


A convoy of trucks overloaded with an extra-large contingent of several dozen policemen rolled into Rabwah and barged into the Ahmadiyya administrative offices, slamming people to the ground and beating up on security personnel posted at the door. 

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By Imran Jattala | December 5, 2016

Police carryout a brutal assault on Ahmadiyya offices, staff in the Punjab town of Rabwah.

The UK newspaper The Guardian in reporting, "Pakistan PM celebrates scientist from minority sect," added the words, "risking hardliners' fury" to its headline. The addition was apparently jinxed.

The news of the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif  honoring the Nobel Laureate, late Dr Abdul Salam, a member of the persecuted Ahmadiyya community, wasn't even a day old when the government of the Punjab swung into action to eclipse the long time coming recognition at home for the world-renowned scientist.

While Nawaz Sharif gave approval to rename the National Centre for Physics at the prestigious Quaid-e-Azam University as the "Professor Abdus Salam Centre for Physics," his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif, Cheif Minister of the Punjab, cowed to the 'hardliners' in the extremists wing of their political party, PML-N, and authorised a raid on the Ahmadiyya installations at the community's headquarter in Rabwah.

The raid, peculiar in its timing, was disguised as a search for blasphemous materials in the Ahmadiyya publications.

According to the news of the alleged raid, a convoy of trucks overloaded with an extra-large contingent of several dozen policemen rolled into Rabwah and barged into the Ahmadiyya administrative offices, slamming people to the ground and beating up on security personnel posted at the door.

Police officials, who carried no search warrants and did not justify the raid, arrested several office staff members, and confiscated computers, telephones and office equipment.

The Punjab province of Pakistan is a region known as cesspool of all things vile when it comes to extremism, terrorism, and religious headliners.

One Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi, son of a Sunni militant group’s slain founder, recently made headlines when he won the by-election for a seat in the Punjab Assembly.

Jhangvi’s father, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, founded Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a banned terrorist group which has helped lead a wave of sectarian violence in Pakistan for decades.


-- Pakistan: "Risking hardliners' fury" addition to The Guardian's Ahmadiyya related headline jinxed


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3 comments:

  1. Such a shame.This is the country who was founded on the name of Islam.Does Islam teaches violence?
    This inhumane behavior is destroying Pakistan.All we can do is just pray to Allah that may He guide these senseless people to the right path,may these people follow the footsteps of Holy Prophet (peace be upon Him).

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  2. It is very painful incident, there is no law in that country. The question is that how can they raid on innocent peoples and on their offices without any reason,for just being an Ahmadi?

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  3. Very condemnable act by punjab government.
    No one is safe and secure in this country.They do whatever they want.only because they think they are the true followers of Islam.

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