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Spokesperson of Ahmadi community says 6 minarets demolished, 2 bigger ones to be taken down later. PHOTO: AHMADI COMMUNITY PRESS OFFICE

LAHORE: Six minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship, Bait-ul-Hamd, were demolished by the Kharian city police Tuesday night.
The demolition took place on the application of Saqib Shakeel Ghazi, Syed Iftikhar Kazmi and others from the Barelvi religious organisation called Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Islam. It had been filed to the Kharian police station.
The application asked the police to take action under the Section 298 B and C of the 1984 ordinance, which declares it illegal for Ahmadis to act or look like Muslims, to practice or propagate their faith and to call their worship place a “mosque”. There were no court orders for the demolition.
Police personnel, under the supervision of DSP Sultan Meeran, assisted by SHO Kharian Sadar Police Station Raja Zahid went to the worship place located near Kabari Bazar, Pul Nullah in Kharian.
Ahmadi community spokesperson Nasir Dar told The Express Tribune that six minarets had already been demolished whereas the police would demolish the two bigger ones later on as one was attached to the worship place’s electric supply and the other would fall on the building if not taken apart with the help of skilled labour.
The Kalma written on the front of the worship place’s entrance was also removed by the police as well, and the complimentary quotes about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were whitewashed.
SHO Raja Zahid said, “Everything was done amicably and peacefully and 80% of the work has been completed.”
Zahid further told The Express Tribune that after receiving the application from the afore-mentioned religious organizations, two meetings with the Ahmadi community and the applicants of the religious organization were held.
Afterwards a committee formed by DSP Sultan Meeran decided that it would be better to demolish the minarets. Zahid added that “noted and respected citizens were part of this committee also.”
SHO Raja Zahid said that the decision to demolish the minarets and other similar actions taken regarding Baitul Hamd were done “after a mutual consensus of the parties involved and the Qadiani community members who were very cooperative”.
“The reason for taking armed police personnel was for the protection of the Qadiyani community also,” said a police official.
Zahid added that, “We made sure that we were respectful, but the law of 298-B clearly states that Qadianis cannot call their worship place a ‘mosque’, so if it cannot be called that, then it cannot resemble the mosque either,” said Zahid.
However, Ahmadi community representative Nasir Dar interprets the “mutual consensus” differently. Dar said, “In our meeting with the police and the applicants, we told them that they can take off the Kalma and whitewash the quotes, but the minarets should only be taken off unless there is a court order to do so.”
“In fact we pleaded that the minarets should not be touched but nobody paid attention to our plight,” added Dar.
He said that the community could not do anything except let the demolition happen because they do not disobey the law. Dar alleges that during the two combined meetings with the Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Islam members and the SHO, Saqib Shakeel Ghazi threatened that if the police did not demolish the minarets, they would do so themselves.
Bait-ul-Hamd was built in 1980, four years before the 1984 Ordinance. The spokesperson for the Ahmadi community in Pakistan, Saleemuddin said, “Is there a patent for the design of a minaret that these people have?”
“All kinds of buildings have minarets and domes as part of their designs then why can’t the Ahmadis retain the ones which are on the pre-1984 worship places?”
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Hussain Naqi, a senior member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said “The police and state are not timid in such incidents, they are not even appeasing to the extremist elements but conniving with them.”
Naqi added that the Chief Justice of Pakistan should take a suo motu. “Till the blasphemy laws are repealed such incidents will keep happening,” he said, adding that the police whitewashing the complimentary quotes for the Prophet and taking off the Kalma tiles was an act of blasphemy as well.
This is the third major incident this year which involves the status of an Ahmadi place of worship. In May 2012, a lower court in Lahore, ordered the police to act as per law on an application which asked for the demolition of Baitul Zikr in Lahore.
In March, couplets of the Holy Quran written on tiles at the Sultanpura place of worship in Lahore were desecrated when police got them removed via labourers.
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Police demolish Ahmadi worship place minarets in Kharian – The Express Tribune
 
yes its illegal for their place of worship to look like mosque....
Police removed the resemblance which shouldn't have been there in the first place....They should have known the law.
 
I wonder why Indian PDF stars are so quick on picking up such news about Pakistan...

@ALOK31 - BTW - What you do for living?

Read the quote in your sig, Alok is an internet hindu, he is here just to troll.

Edit:Now Alok, know the reality of your "Shining india" and we'll see who is really trolling and who is retaliating.

India police 'killed tribals, not Maoists' in Chhattisgarh
Rights activists in India say 17 people killed by paramilitary police in Chhattisgarh state in June were local tribespeople and not Maoist rebels.

In a new report, the activists said tribals who had gathered for a meeting unarmed had been "slaughtered".

Among those killed were a 12-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old school students.

Police now admit civilians were killed - but say they died in crossfire and were used by rebels as human shields.

To begin with, police had said all 17 people killed in an overnight clash on 29 June in rebel-dominated Bijapur district had been rebels.

Six personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were also wounded, they said.

But within hours, BBC correspondent Salman Ravi in Raipur, Chhattisgarh's capital, reported that locals had held a protest contesting the police claim. They alleged that most of those killed were villagers, not insurgents.

'Without warning'

Ramaiah's daughter Saraswati, 12 , was among those killed
The report, compiled by the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations, was released on Wednesday in the Indian capital, Delhi.

The activists visited the three villages of Sarkeguda, Kottaguda and Rajpenta last week and spoke to the villagers extensively about the incident.

"All those in the gathering were adivasi [tribal] residents of the three villages and [they were] unarmed," the report said.

The villagers told the activists that they were fired upon "without any warning".

"And those who did not die from bullet wounds were killed by the police with axes," they said.

Initially the CRPF said all 17 people killed were Maoist rebels.

But, correspondents say, questions have been raised in the past few days after local media reports accused the security forces of extra-judicial killings.

Subsequently, officials said only seven of the dead were Maoists.

Last week, the Chhattisgarh government announced a judicial inquiry into the incident.

In a statement, Chief Minister Raman Singh said the aim was "to ascertain the chronology of the events, the reasons behind the firing and the identities of those killed".

The Maoists are active in more than a third of India's 600-odd districts. They say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and labourers.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the rebels as the biggest internal security challenge facing India.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18792575
Shame Shame India!!! First you kill innocents then lie to save face.
 
Great News !!!! . Even abdus Salam would be turning in his grave to see this ( if it hasn't been defiled yet much more after scratching "muslim" word from his tombstone
 
I wonder why Indian PDF stars are so quick on picking up such news about Pakistan...

@ALOK31 - BTW - What you do for living?

Same reason why Pakistanis and chinese will be the first to pick such news about India ...
 
Well ! Instead of supporting Religious riots (unlike indian police) our Local kharian police had interfered on right time and implemented law. Well! In indian gujarat's riots even police was involved in killings and shooting which caused hundreds of casualities. :bad:
 
Read the quote in your sig, Alok is an internet hindu, he is here just to troll.
first ,my mom and dad is hindu(katter) .i am also hindu but i am not belive in god .and read the comment of ET newspaper .how your countrymen spread hate against your own countrymen(ahmediyaa).
 
finally my comment on the news, well, personally I dont think it does any good to Islam or makes sense to not allow Ahemdis in Pakistan practice their religion the way they want... If Islam has strength in it, it will survive without these kind of laws and discrimination against Ahmedis, like it does in any other country.

But it is not uncommon for humans to find other religions disgusting or annoying. In Comparision, for example, Switzerland has banned constructing of minarets at Mosques at all.
 
first ,my mom and dad is hindu(katter) .i am also hindu but i am not belive in god so GTFU.and read the comment of ET newspaper .how your countrymen spread hate against your own countrymen(ahmediyaa).


At least we are not killing our innocents like you, then inventing lies. Human shield Pfff-Seems Hindu zionists are learning well from their Jewish Zionist brothers.

Anyway continue trolling, I'm out.
 
:lol: And then these same people justifying this demolition cry a river about Babri Masjid.. Hypocrites.. :disagree:

The police under the law- demolished their worship place- it happens every where- law need to be enforced- some times for construction project- some times other reasons-

you seriously are on to comparing this with Babri Masjid?- where thousands of hindu extremists in mob- armed with hatred- and waht- illegally attacked and destroyed the ancient mosque-

Either your brain cells are dead or you extremly foolish- or you one of them saffron hinduvata extremists-
 
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