In a single day in 2010, 94 were killed in Lahore when two Ahmadi mosques were attacked by hardline Pakistani Taliban
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| Three Ahmadis were killed in the span of 3 weeks during March-April 2017 |
Source/Credit: Asia Times
By F.M. Shakil | APRIL 20, 2017
Recent killings are just the latest examples of decades-long persecution of a community considered non-Muslim by the state
The atmosphere at Sabzazar, Lahore, is still gloomy following the gruesome murder of Prof Dr Ashfaq Ahmed. The 78-year-old was shot dead by unknown assailants on April 6 while being driven by his grandson to his office. His crime was that he belonged to a sect viewed by orthodox Muslims in Pakistan as heretical and un-Islamic: the Ahmadiyya.
Prof Ahmed’s killing was the second such incident within a span of eight days. On March 30, an Ahmadi lawyer, 69-year-old Malik Saleem Latif – who happened to be a cousin of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, Dr Abdus Salam – was mercilessly murdered in Nankana Sahib by an activist from the proscribed militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
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