Nearly 50 Ahmadi graves desecrated by police in Punjab province in Punjab

Lahore: Nearly 50 graves belonging to the Ahmadis have been allegedly desecrated by police and Muslim clerics for using Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery in Pakistan's Punjab province, a member of an organisation representing the minority community said on Monday.

Jamaat Ahmadiya Punjab spokesperson Aamir Mahmood said that a group of people in Premkot, district Hafizabad, some 110 kms from Lahore, approached police complaining that Islamic verses are inscribed  on the tombstones of a number of graves in the Ahmadis graveyard.

The group threatened that Ahmadis cannot display



Islamic verses/symbols  on their homes or graves, he said."On Sunday, police along with local clerics and lawyers reached Ahmadi graveyard and demolished tombstones of 45 graves inscribed with Islamic verses," Mahmood told PTI. 

The enraged extremists also warned Ahmadis living in area to remove Islamic verses displayed on their houses otherwise they will demolish them too, he added.

On other hand, police said tombstones from Ahmadi graves have been removed on application of a group of lawyers and warned  Ahmadis not to use same in future.