LAHORE: Some unknown persons attacked the Ahmadiyya Graveyard in Model Town on Monday, desecrated more than 120 graves of Ahmedi community and tortured the watchman and caretakers.
Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan is under attack for last several years in Pakistan and in this latest incident, 15 to 20 masked men, some of them equipped with arms, attacked the graveyard and shattered the tombstones of more than 120 graves.
According to police, eyewitnesses, watchman and locals of the area, around 1:30 am (after midnight) the attackers entered the graveyard through seven feet high wall and tied the watchman. In the meanwhile the watchman called his security incharge upon which the attackers snatched his phone and tortured him.
“I saw around 15 bearded men wearing masks, carrying weapons and excavation tools including hammers. I at once dialled the number of the security incharge, on which they tied me up with a cloth,” the watchman told Daily Times.
When the security incharge received the call from the watchman, he rushed to the graveyard gate with a policeman. The inchrage entered the graveyard and asked the policeman to stay outside to control the situation. However, when the policeman saw the critical situation, he started aerial firing and called 15 to inform the police station.
Meanwhile in the graveyard the bearded men, after tying the watchman, caretakers and their family members and threatening them to leave the country on pain of dire consequences. They said that they belonged to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and a banned outfit and if they will not leave the country they would be killed. They also showed their anger over Islamic verses and Kalima on the tombstones of graves and started shattering the tombstones with hammers.
According to the watchman the attackers were wearing black masks and were speaking Punjabi and Urdu and their ‘leader’ had long hair, a beard and traces of Pashto in his accent. After more than half an hour the perpetrators ran off in a hurry when the policeman standing outside the graveyard opened aerial firing. The attackers also took cell phones, wallets and money with them.
An application has been filed in Liaqatabad police station in which Jamaat-i-Ahmaddiya Pakistan is the complainant. However the FIR was not filed till the filing of this report. When Daily Times contacted the Liaqatabad police station the Muharrar refused to provide any information about the issue and said that only the SHO could provide information. Later, despite several attempts, the SHO Liaqatabad Police Station Muhammad Idrees was not available to comment on the issue.
According to the spokesperson of Jamat-i-Ahmadiyya Pakistan Salim ud Din, the behaviour of the police remained unfriendly in the whole incident who even arrived two hours after the incident and did their routine investigation. He further said that the role of the police remained suspect due to their behaviour towards the community. He also confirmed that the police had not filed the FIR of the incident.
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