Ahmadiyya people are subjected to intense persecution, including hate speech and violence . At least 13 people killed and 40 wounded from the group since 2017 .
Islamabad, Pakistan, December 8: Pakistan has evolved into a nation where the Ahmadiyya people are subjected to intense persecution, including hate speech and violence, with at least 13 people killed and 40 wounded from the group since 2017, according to a media report.According to the Geneva Daily, a newspaper that publishes in-depth coverage of issues relating to human rights abuse and child violence, the community's estimated 4 million inhabitants have been persecuted by authorities and the Moreover, they are also forbidden to call their houses of prayer mosques, as was the most recent offence reported by an Ahmadi cemetery in the Punjab province on November 22.The attackers robbed four tomb markers and wrote anti-Ahmadi epithets on them.This was the third such event in 2022; there were also instances in February and August, according to Geneva Daily, citing a Pakistani daily, Friday Times.
According to the newspaper, unidentified perpetrators desecrated four grave headstones and inscribed anti-Ah According to Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya spokesperson Aamir Mehmood, the shooting occurred in Premkot, Hafizabad, on November 22, but it was revealed shortly afterwards.The shooting took place at the same graveyard where Punjab Police had reportedly desecrated 45 community graves earlier in February.According to the Friday Times, the Ahmadi Muslim community in Pakistan has been the subject of constant discrimination, bullying, and threats since 1974, when then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto introduced a Constitutional Amendment addressing the population, declaring them non-Muslims.General Zia-ul-Haq introduced Ordinance in 1984, which stripped the Muslim community of the freedom to identify themselves as Muslims and the freedom to practice their faith freely.