Ahmadi Muslim brutally killed in Pakistan

27th December 2010 PRESS RELEASE

Ahmadi Muslim brutally killed in Pakistan

Sheikh Omar Javed of Mardan was martyred on
23 December 2010

It is with great sadness that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat hereby confirms that Mr Sheikh Omar Javed of Mardan, Pakistan was martyred on 23 December 2010.

The facts of the cases are as follows:

Sheikh Omar Javed was returning home from work with his father and cousin in their family car at around 6.45pm when unknown assailants, on a motorbike, started firing at their car. Sheikh Omar Javed was in the backseat and was shot both in the head and in the chest. He died there and then and thus was martyred. The assailants fled the scene immediately, having fired around 17 or 18 bullets.

The father and cousin of Sheikh Omar Javed were also injured, however both are expected to make full recoveries.

Sheikh Omar Javed is survived by his wife, who is expecting their first child.

Other members of Sheikh Omar Javed’s family have also been martyred in recent times. On 3rd September 2010, Sheikh Amir Raza was martyred during the suicide bomb attack that took place on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat mosque in Mardan. Then on 8 November 2010 Sheikh Mahmud Ahmad was also martyred in Mardan. A member of this family was also martyred back in 1974, the year in which Ahmadi Muslims were declared non-Muslim in Pakistan.

Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, said:

“Despite the numerous martyrdoms that have befallen this family, they continue to bear these great difficulties with bravery and patience. After the last martyrdom, in November, I spoke to the family members and it was with great courage and strength that they all expressed their feelings and emotions. May Allah elevate the status of the deceased and grant patience to his loved ones.”

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Asma targeted in Ahmedi hate campaign

Pakistan Punjab

Asma targeted in Ahmedi hate campaign

Rana Tanveer
October 27, 2010

Pamphlet calls her an anti-Pakistan, pro-American and pro-Indian Ahmedi.

LAHORE: One of the leading candidates in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections is being targeted by a hate campaign that calls her an Ahmedi, pro-American and pro-Indian.

The Khatme Nabuwwat Lawyers Forum based in Markaze Sirajia, a seminary in Ghalib Market, Gulberg, Lahore, recently published an eight-page pamphlet titled Targeted Missile Against Supreme Court that claims Asma Jahangir, a contender for the office of SCBA president, is a Qadiani, a derogatory term for Ahmedis. It also accuses her of being anti-Pakistan and pro-US and pro-India.

The pamphlet has been distributed at the Lahore Bar Association and posted to members of the SCBA.

Also, an Urdu language daily recently published a statement from Majlise Ehrar secretary general Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema that “Qadiani elements” were campaigning for Jahangir in the SCBA elections. He said “anti-Muslim forces” wanted her elected president in a nefarious plot to abolish the blasphemy laws.

Jahangir, talking to The Express Tribune, accused her opponents of resorting to dirty tricks to win the election. She was confident that the SCBA members would not be influenced by “such mudslinging”, but regretted that such a campaign had been undertaken.

Hassnain Jameel, her spokesman, said Jahangir is a Muslim and her opponents were criticising her for fighting for the rights of minorities and the destitute.

Advocate Tahir Sultan Khokhar, vice chairman of the Khatme Nabuwwat Lawyers Forum, who is not a member of the SCBA, said that this was not the first time the group had acted against a ‘Qadiani’. “Since its inception two years ago we have taken significant steps in this regard,” he said.

Khokhar said the pamphlet was meant to tell voters the truth about Jahangir. He said he only wrote facts about her in the pamphlet and left it up to voters to decide which candidate was the right choice.

‘Military candidate’

Ahmed Awais, Jahangir’s main rival in the election, denied having anything to do with the hate campaign or the pamphlet. “It is not right to bring religion or other matters into it. The elections are an internal matter for lawyers,” he said. Awais said he had always been respectful towards his opponents during his campaign speeches, though they had abused him in their speeches.

He said he too was being targeted by “hateful propaganda” portraying him as the army candidate in the elections, a major insult since lawyers worked so hard for the ouster of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf as president. He was also being called a PML-N candidate to get the sympathies of PML-Q lawyers and a PML-Q candidate to get the sympathies of PML-N lawyers.

Senior members of the bar condemned the circulation of the pamphlet and the unsubstantiated rumours about the candidates. They said such mudslinging was an insult to the bar and the values it stood for.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 27th, 2010.

URL: http://tribune.com.pk/story/68099/asma-targeted-in-ahmedi-hate-campaign/

Ahmadi killed in suicide bomb attack in Mardan

FLASH-Human Rights

FAX September 5, 2010

Ahmadi killed in suicide bomb attack in Mardan

Ahmadiyya mosque in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was attacked by two terrorists at about 1:05 p.m. on September 3, 2010. One Ahmadi, Sheikh Amir Raza was martyred during this attack, whilst further loss was prevented by the bravery of Ahmadis charged with securing the premises. The police, despite the threat to the mosque, had provided no official security guards to the mosque even during Friday prayers.

As the terrorists threw a grenade, Ahmadi volunteer guards fired at them and injured one of them. At this one of them beat the retreat while the other persisted in his attack. He failed to enter the mosque, so blew himself up in a huge explosion at the parameter. Consequently the mosque gate and the outer wall were destroyed. This resulted in serious injuries to Mr Raza who died on the way to hospital. Three other Ahmadis Fahim Khan, Taufeeq Ahmad and Imran Javed were injured in the heinous attack.

Sheikh Amir Raza is survived by his wife, a nine years old son and an infant daughter.

The Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Jamaat stated in his Friday sermon, inter alia:

“May God quickly save our country from the acts of such evil persons and groups. Indeed, I pray that He saves the entire world because such evil has spread throughout the world.”

Ahmadi Muslim Killed in Suicide Bomb Attack in Pakistan

4th September 2010 PRESS RELEASE

Another Ahmadi Muslim Killed in Suicide Bomb Attack in Pakistan

May God quickly save our country from the acts of such evil persons and groups.

It is with great regret that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat confirms that yesterday, 3rd September 2010 its Bait-ul-Zikr mosque in Mardan, Pakistan was attacked by two terrorists. One Ahmadi Muslim, Sheikh Amir Raza was martyred during this attack, whilst further loss was prevented by the bravery of the Ahmadi Muslims charged with securing the premises.

FACTS

On 3rd September 2010 at around 1.05pm local time Mr Ata-ul Hameed was leading the Friday prayers at the Bait-ul-Zikr mosque at Muslimabad, Canal Road, Mardan when two unknown terrorists tried to enter the premises.

Initially one of the attackers threw a grenade towards the Mosque entrance which landed a few metres away. Upon seeing this, the Ahmadi Muslims near the entrance went into the mosque and locked the door from the inside.

Due to the bravery of further Ahmadi security personnel one of the attackers was injured and so he retreated. However the other began to fire his gun indiscriminately. He again tried to enter the mosque but was prevented from doing so by the Ahmadis on duty. Seeing that he would not be able to enter the mosque the terrorist chose to detonate a bomb hidden inside his jacket in a suicide attack. The effect of the explosion was massive and due to the impact the mosque gate and the outer wall were both destroyed. The homes of Ahmadis who lived nearby were also damaged by the explosion. Upon the explosion the other terrorist who had retreated ran away and remains unaccounted for.

Inside the mosque building at the end of a small corridor is a small room where final security checking takes place. At the time of the attack Sheikh Amir Raza was on duty in that room. When he heard firing he closed the inner door in an effort to protect the worshippers who had come for Friday prayers and also to prevent either of the terrorists from entering into the mosque area. However when the suicide bomber blew himself up the blast was so severe that it caused the door and wall of the room Sheikh Amir Raza was in to collapse. As it fell the door struck Sheikh Amir Raza and he was seriously injured. Tragically, on the way to hospital Sheikh Amir Raza succumbed to the injuries and was thus martyred.

Sheikh Amir Raza was 40 years old and was the son of the late Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmad. He was a much loved and dedicated member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat. He had an electronics business and also worked for a food items agency.

Sheikh Amir Raza is survived by his wife, Lubna Amir, his son Usama (9) and infant daughter.

Three other Ahmadi Muslims were also injured in this heinous attack. They are Fahim Ahmad Khan, Taufeeq Ahmad and Imran Jawed.

The Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said in his Friday Sermon of 3rd September 2010:

“Today we received very sad news that during the Friday prayers our Mosque in Mardan was attacked by terrorists. One person was martyred and some others were injured. May Allah elevate the status of the martyr and grant full recovery to those who were injured.”

His Holiness went on to say:

“What type of people are these, who in the name of Islam and in the name of God perpetrate such evil acts? These people who attack worshippers of God in His name can under no circumstances claim to be Godly. Just two days ago there was also an attack on a Shia religious procession in Lahore in which many innocent people were killed and many others were injured. May God quickly save our country from the acts of such evil persons and groups. Indeed I pray that He saves the entire world because such evil has spread throughout the world.”

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One dies in suicide hit on Ahmadiya worship place

Saturday, September 04, 2010

One dies in suicide hit on Ahmadiya worship place

By: Riaz Mayar | Published: September 04, 2010

MARDAN – At least two persons, a suicide bomber and another person, were killed while four people including three security guards got seriously injured in a suicide bomb attack on a house of worship of the Ahmadiya community located in the city.

According to the official sources and eyewitness, the suicide attacker wanted to enter the worship place located at the street No 2 Muslimabad Canal Road Rambagh Mardan and target the people busy in offering prayer. He threw the hand grenade on the security guards performing duty there but it failed to detonate diffused. The suicide bomber then threw another hand grenade towards security guards.

Meanwhile, the security guards started firing but the suicide bomber blew himself before entering the worship house. As a result the leader of Ahmadiyya community, Sheikh Amir Raza, died while security guards identified as Dr Karim, Sheikh Imran and Fahim and another person Abdul Salam who also belonged to Ahmadiyya community got seriously injured. They were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Mardan where their condition is stated out of danger.

Eyewitness told that a seventeen-year old boy who was wearing black clothes wanted to enter the place of worship and security guards started firing on him and then he blew himself in the street. It is to be noted that Ahmadiyya community is living in this area and they have made their worship place in a house and people who belong to the Ahmadiyya community go there from all over the city for prayer on Friday. It is pertinent to mention here that in the past, too, unidentified militants targeted the shops of Ahmadiyya community at Bikat Ganj Bazaar.

People belonging to Ahmadiyya community told that unknown people had been giving threats to them, prompting them to take proper security arrangements of their place of worship. District Police Office (DPO) Mardan Haji Waqif Khan while speaking on this occasion said that security was on high alert and due to which suicide bomber did not succeed in hitting his target.

He told that the suicide bomber was wearing suicide jacket containing 7kg to 8kg explosive material. He said that security was put on high alert and search operation had been started in the area. No militant group has accepted the responsibility of the incident till filling of the report.

URL: www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspap...adiya-worship-place

Bomber targets Ahmadi place of worship

Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & FATA

Bomber targets Ahmadi place of worship

Manzoor Ali
September 4, 2010

Screen capture of damage caused to the Ahmadi place of worship in Mardan.

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a worship place of the Ahmadiyya community in the Canal Town neighbourhood of Mardan, killing himself and a security guard on Friday.

Police said the suicide bomber detonated the explosives strapped to his body when he was stopped by the security guard at the gate of the Ahmadiyya place of worship in the Muslimabad area of the city. As a result the security guard, identified as Shaikh Amir, was killed and five more people were wounded. Officials say the death toll could have been much higher, had the bomber managed to enter the worship place where Friday prayers were in progress.

The casualties were ferried to the District Headquarters Hospital. It was the first suicide attack on any minority community in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province since the beginning of the insurgency.

However, the Anjuman Ahmadiyya Rabwah gave a different account. “Two terrorists began firing at the Ahmadi Bait al-Zikkar when Friday prayers were in progress. A grenade was also thrown but it did not explode,” said Saleem ud Din, the spokesperson for the Jama’at Ahmadiyya, in a statement.

“One of the terrorists, however, managed to blow himself up at the door of the Bait al-Zikkar, killing the security guard and injuring three others,” he added. “The wall of the building collapsed as a result of the blast.”

He claimed were no security arrangements made by the authorities outside the Bait al-Zikkar or in the vicinity. And the second terrorist managed to flee the scene.

The spokesperson condemned the “barbaric atrocity”, saying that Ahmadis have been targets of such attacks for too long.

He said that despite the May 28 attacks in Lahore, authorities have made no adequate arrangements for the security and protection of Ahmadis. However, he added that the response of the Jama’at will be peaceful and non-violent. In another incident, a police patrol van was attacked with a bomb on the outskirts of Peshawar at around 10:44 am on Friday.

According to a police account, the patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted on a roadside near Pishtakhara Chowk on Ring Road. Three policemen were wounded in the blast. They were ferried to the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC), where one of them, identified as Shabbir Jan, expired. The other two are stated to be in a stable condition.

Officials from the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) said around three kilogrammes of explosives were used in the IED which was detonated through a remote control. (With additional input from Wires)

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2010.

URL: http://tribune.com.pk/story/46432/bomber-targets-ahmadi-place-of-worship/

Attack on Ahmedi worship place in Mardan kills one

Pakistan

Attack on Ahmedi worship place in Mardan kills one

Friday, 03 Sep, 2010

Several others were wounded in the suicide blast in the worship place in the northwestern Mardan town. — Photo by AFP

PESHAWAR: At least one man was killed and four wounded Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Ahmadi place of worship in Mardan, police said.

“A suicide bomber was trying to enter the Ahmadis’ worship place, but he was intercepted by the guards outside and blew himself up,” Mardan police chief Waqif Khan told AFP.

“A passerby was killed and four others were wounded in the firing and suicide attack,” Khan said, adding that it was unclear whether the man was killed by the bomb or by gunshots fired by the guards.

Police have handed over the bomber’s body parts to a forensic team, he said.

In May nearly 100 people were killed in the eastern city of Lahore after militants stormed two Ahmadi prayer halls launching gun and grenade attacks.

Gunmen later raided the hospital where victims were being treated, killing four people in a shoot out.

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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/