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Religious extremists led by members of a extremist Islamist enactment attacked the houses and shops of Ahmadis implicit the burial of an Ahmadi pistillate successful Pakistan's Punjab province, an organisation representing the number assemblage said connected Thursday (September 25, 2025).
According to Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan (JAP), the incidental occurred this week successful Piru Chak, Sialkot District, astir 130 km from Lahore. Ahmadi pistillate Qudsia Tabassum, 55, died this week. When she was taken to the graveyard of Piru Chak for burial, a radical of Muslim extremists reached determination and obstructed her burial, it said.
"They said from present connected nary Ahmadi volition beryllium buried successful that graveyard," it added.
After the Partition successful 1947, this graveyard onshore was allotted to Ahmadis for the burial of their dead, the JAP said.
It said that erstwhile members of different sects surviving successful the country were not allowed by their ain communities to hide their dormant successful their graveyards, the Ahmadi assemblage permitted them to hide their dormant successful this graveyard.
There are 220 Ahmadi graves successful this graveyard, portion astir 100 radical from different sects are besides buried there, it said. It said that arsenic the Ahmadis insisted connected burying the pistillate successful that graveyard, a ample fig of extremists led by extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan gathered and attacked the houses of Ahmadis and their shops, successful which immoderate Ahmadis were injured.
On the different hand, constabulary serviceman Muhammad Adnan Bhatti said that the clash betwixt Ahmadis and section Muslims of the colony of Piru Chak erupted implicit the burial of an Ahmadi woman.
He said the Ahmadis besides attacked the houses of Muslims, resulting successful injuries to immoderate of them. "A lawsuit has been registered against 30 Ahmadis nether sections 506, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code," helium said.
The JAP said the constabulary person registered a lawsuit against its assemblage members, but are not entertaining its exertion connected the issue. It said the pistillate was aboriginal buried 14 kilometres distant from this graveyard to appease the extremists.
Although Ahmadis see themselves Muslims, Pakistan's Parliament successful 1974 declared the assemblage to beryllium non-Muslims. A decennary later, they were not conscionable banned from calling themselves Muslims but were besides barred from practising aspects of Islam.
These see constructing oregon displaying immoderate awesome that identifies them arsenic Muslims, specified arsenic gathering minarets oregon domes connected mosques, oregon publically penning verses from the Quran.
