"Appeals against the court’s decision to demolish the Minarets were repeatedly turned down and on 30th April 2015 the court ruled that the Minarets be demolished within ten days."
Source/Credit: AMJ International
By Staff Report | May 9, 2015
The worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's London headquarters reacted today to the May 4th destruction of an Ahmadiyya mosque in Pakistan, calling it a "part of the long running State-backed persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan."
The incident first reported by Ahmadiyya Times at the time of its occurrence [also here and here], took place in Pachnand, District Chakwal, Punjab, and it was widely condemned in the social media by individual Ahmadis and rights activists worldwide.
The hastily carried out operation by the contingent of police and commandos to remove minarets from an Ahmadi owned mosque has left a part of the building destroyed and it was widely seen as an event orchestrated together by an Islamist extremist faction and the Punjab government.
From the details first reported by Ahmadiyya Times sources and now confirmed by the community press statement, it's obvious the entire process was engineered to deny Ahmadis their due rights and freedoms, said one Ahmadiyya Times reader.
Anis Ahmad Chaudry of Southern California questioned the tactics employed by the Punjab authorities to arrange illegal implementation of the court order to remove the minarets from the Ahmadi mosque.
"The Ahmadis were given only 10 days to appeal the court order, a questionable order in the fist place," said said Chaudry, adding, "but the same court, in cahoots with plaintiffs and police, moved for immediate implementation of the order before the appeal could be filed."
"So much for the tall claims of being an 'Islamic Republic'. It is neither Islamic, nor Republic because there is no justice there," Chaudry added.
In Pakistan, Ahmadiyya Mosques remain a target of religious clerics and government authorities and, according to the community statement, the case against Pachnand mosque was first filed in 2011 "as part of a chain of other hate-crimes spurred by an anti-Ahmadi conference and distribution of provocative literature against local Ahmadi Muslims."
"Following the conference," the statement further stated, "Ahmadi Muslim children were expelled from schools, Ahmadiyya Mission House was shot at, hit-lists calling for their murder of Ahmadi Muslims were distributed to general public and a social boycott was urged."
-- UK: Pakistan authorities demolish parts of Ahmadi Muslim mosque
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