Ahmadi man murdered in Narowal

PAKISTAN PUNJAB

Ahmadi man murdered in Narowal

By Abdul Manan
June 01, 2010

LAHORE: A 55 year old Ahmadi man, Naimatullah Ahmad, was stabbed to death and his son Mansoor Ahmad seriously injured on Monday morning in Qila Ahmadabad, Narowal, a local police official told The Express Tribune.

Inspector Riaz of Qila Ahmadabad Police Station said that 29 year old Abid Butt, entered Naimatullah’s house by climbing a side wall adding that Butt has been arrested and a First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against him.

“Preliminary investigations show that Butt has extremist views and belongs to the Tablighi Jamat and usually went on three to 40 day religious camps,” Riaz said.

Butt had confessed to Riaz that he had been told that Ahmadis were “Wajib-ul-Qatal” (ordained to be killed) and that he was following the teachings of Islam.

“Butt is basically your typical fanatic. His family, however, seem normal,” Riaz claimed.

Mansoor, the deceased’s son was rushed to Mayo Hospital for further treatment.

Hospital officials told The Express Tribune that Mansoor had suffered serious knife injuries to his head and belly. They said that his operation was a success and that he will soon recover.

Local social activist Sadiq Jutt told The Express Tribune that three families of the Ahmadiyya community lived in Qila Ahmadabad and seven families lived in Behlool Pur village.

“Butt had been threatening the deceased for the last six months and often asked the deceased to embrace Islam or face the consequences,” Jutt said.

“Butt had claimed some months ago that he would convert all three Ahmadi families living in Qila Ahmadabad to Islam,” Jutt added.

A female visitor of Mansoor’s informed The Express Tribune that the deceased and his son were sleeping in the lawn of the house when they were attacked.

“Butt first yelled as he entered and asked Naimatullah and his son to recite the Kalma and stabbed them without any warning,” she said

Ahmadiyya community spokesman Saleemuddin told The Express Tribune that the “Punjab government has failed to provide them security in the province. He said that after the massacre of the Ahmadiyya community on May 28 at Lahore, extremists have started targeting innocent Ahmadis.”

He said that according to their information, Butt had offered his Friday prayers in a Faisalabad mosque where the sermon delivered by the local cleric was against the Ahmadiyya community.

The cleric in his sermon insisted that they were Wajib-ul-Qatal.

“Naimatullah’s murder was the result of hateful speeches against the Ahmadiyya community,” Saleemuddin said.

Published in the Express Tribune, June 1st, 2010.

URL: http://tribune.com.pk/story/17757/ahmadi-man-murdered-in-narowal/

Ahmadi man stabbed to death in Narowal

Daily Dawn, Pakistan                               | Provinces

Ahmadi man stabbed to death in Narowal
   Monday, 31 May, 2010

Shoes of members of the attacked Ahmadi community lie outside the building's entrance in the Garhi Shahu area of Lahore. A British businessman Muhammad Bilal was among those who lost their lives in the attack. — Photo by AFP

LAHORE: An Ahmadi man was stabbed to death by an enraged man in Pakistan on Monday, just days after gun, grenade and suicide attacks targeting the religious minority killed more than 80 people, police said.

The stabbing took place in the town of Narowal, some 100 kilometres northeast of Lahore, where suspected militants wearing suicide vests burst into prayer halls on Friday and killed 82 worshippers.

“In the morning, a man identified as Abid Butt climbed the wall of the house of a local Ahmadi family and stabbed Naimatullah, 55, and his son Mansoor Ahmed,” local police station chief Riaz Sangha told AFP by telephone.

Naimatullah died of knife wounds and his son was rushed to hospital, he added.

The attacker escaped, the officer said.

Sangha quoted residents as saying that the assailant threatened to not leave any Ahmadi alive.

Salimuddin, a spokesman for Lahore’s Ahmadi community “strongly condemned” what he called a “targeted killing”.

Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974 and 10 years later they were barred from calling themselves Muslims.

A US State Department report on human rights says that 11 Ahmadis were killed for their faith in 2009.

Religious violence in Pakistan, mostly between majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shias, has killed more than 4,000 people in the past decade.

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