Minarets of three Ahmadi minority’s places of worship (Bait -ul-Hamd) were destroyed by police and religious extremists while 31 Ahmadis who came to stop the desecration were booked in Punjab province of Pakistan, a community organisation said on Friday.
Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan (JAP) said the incidents took place in Sialkot and Faisalabad districts of Punjab, some 100 km and 130 km from Lahore, respectively, during this week.Ahmadis cannot call their worship places as "Mosque" nor give the shape of Muslim mosque to their worship places.
A senior police officer told PTI that since minarets of Ahmadi worship mosques are similar to mosques, local Muslims objected to them, demanding their demolition.
Nearly 75 graves and minarets of three worship places belonging to the Ahmadi minority community have been demolished by police and radical Islamists in Pakistan's Punjab province, a member of an organisation representing the minority community said on Sunday.