Pakistan: Three Taliban militants held for attack on Ahmadi mosque in Taunsa Shrif

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A policeman deployed there was hit by a bullet during the attack, while the terrorists fled the spot when other security guards returned the fire.

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By Press Trust of India | July 16, 2015

Three Taliban militants who attacked a place of worship of the minority Ahmadia community last week in Pakistan's Punjab province have been arrested and arms, suicide jackets were seized from them, police said.

Four terrorists had attacked 'Baitul Salat', a worship place of the Ahmadia community in Taunsa Sharif, some 350 kilometres from Lahore, on July 11, Dera Ghazi Khan district police officer Ghulam Mubashar Maikin told reporters.

A policeman deployed there was hit by a bullet during the attack, while the terrorists fled the spot when other security guards returned the fire, Maikin said.

He said a special team was constituted to arrest the militants.

"The team has managed to arrest three members of a Taliban group, Al-Farooq, involved in the attack," he said.

He said hand grenades, guns, suicide jackets and hate literature have been seized from them.

Raids are underway to arrest the accomplices of the terrorists, Maikin said.

Regarded by orthodox Muslims as heretical, Ahmadis are not allowed to refer to their places of worship as mosques or to publicly quote from the Koran - acts punishable by imprisonment of up to three years.

Pakistan's constitution was amended 40 years ago to declare Ahmadis to be non-Muslims.


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