World News | Six Members of Minority Ahmadi Community Arrested in Pakistan
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Lahore, Aug 20 (PTI) Police in Pakistan on Sunday arrested six members of the minority Ahmadi community for allegedly posing themselves as Muslims.
According to a Pakistani Constitutional amendment in 1974, Ahmadis were declared to be non-Muslims.
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The Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan protested the arrest of members of the minority community, saying the radical Islamists Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) activists were at the forefront in inciting the area people against the innocent Ahmadis and getting the FIR registered against them.
The TLP was also allegedly involved in torching some 20 churches and over 80 homes of Christians in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad, some 130kms from Lahore, last Wednesday over the blasphemy allegations against two Christians.
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Police officer Ashfaq Khan told PTI on Sunday that six Ahmadis -- Wajahat Ahmad Qamar, Shafique Adil, Nasir Ahmad, Mudassir Ahmad, Shiraz Ahmad and Umer Ahmad Bajwa -- have been arrested for "posing themselves as Muslims."
Under 298C of PPC, Ahmadis may face three years imprisonment and a fine for posing themselves as Muslims.
(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)