Ahmadi graves and minarets destroyed in Pakistan

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Ahmadis in Pakistan have reported than 74 graves were vandalised last week in Punjab’s Daska city and two minarets were demolished near Lahore.

Al Jazeera reports the fear is a coordinated hate campaign by police and administrative officials, urged on by the right wing Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan political party.

The Ahmadi community is a religious minority in Pakistan and is declared non-Muslim in the constitution, because of its belief that its founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was the promised Messiah.

They are banned from publicly displaying any symbol identifying them as Muslims, including minarets or domes on mosques.