Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Sunni Muslims demolish minarets on three Ahmadi mosques

In a recent act of hostility towards the Ahmadi community in Pakistan, radical Islamists have demolished the minarets of three places of worship belonging to this minority group, located in various districts of the Punjab province. These extremists claim that the minarets resemble those of a Muslim mosque.

This incident occurred just over a week after the arches of an Ahmadi community place of worship were vandalized, despite a court order prohibiting such actions against the places of worship built by this minority before 1984.

In 1974, Pakistan's Parliament officially designated the Ahmadi community as non-Muslims, even forbidding them from identifying as Muslims.

According to Amir Mahmood, an official from the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan, members of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) forcibly entered three Ahmadi places of worship in the Sheikhupura, Bahawalnagar, and Bahawalpur districts of Punjab and demolished their minarets in the past few days, asserting that these minarets resembled those of a Muslim mosque.