Pakistan's Jama'at Ahmadiyya Mourns Peshawar Schoolchildren Killed by Terrorists

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"Regrettably extremists are free to carry out their mischief in the public sphere including the regular issuance of edicts of death and calling on normal people to act upon them."

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Source/Credit: Jama'at Ahmadiyya Press Release
By Staff Report | December 17, 2014

The Peshawar attack is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Pakistan. The country requires action from its rulers not condemnation. In this hour of national grief the thoughts and prayers of the Ahmadiyya Community go out to their countrymen: Spokesperson Ahmadiyya Community

CHENAB NAGAR (RABWAH): Saleem ud Din, the spokesperson of the Ahmadiyya Community of Pakistan has condemned the terrorist attack on the Army Public School and College in Peshawar where 141 people were massacred including 132 children.

Calling the attacks "heinous and barbaric", Saleem ud Din said there were no words to express his grief and sorrow at the tragedy.

Ahmadiyya spokesperson called on the authorities "to take real and practical measures against the extremists who committed this atrocity rather than just issue statements of condemnation."

Saleem ud Din said the radical elements who use religion to perpetrate acts of horror are the real enemies of Pakistan. Blame must rest firmly on the shoulders of those who incite and mastermind these crimes."

"Regrettably," Saleem ud Din says, "extremists are free to carry out their mischief in the public sphere including the regular issuance of edicts of death and calling on normal people to act upon them."

"The negligence of the authorities has enabled terrorists to perpetrate their barbarism."

Saleem ud Din said that in this tragic hour the Ahmadiyya community mourn with the people of Pakistan and pray that Allah grants the martyrs a place in paradise, restores health to the injured and gives patience and to the families of victims.

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