An old video showing a cleric calling Ahmadis “traitors” and instigating hatred against the persecuted community in a gathering comprising police officers goes viral.
An event for #KashmirDay a cleric demanding deportation of #Ahmadis from Pakistan. That’s happening in the presence of a man in uniform sitting on stage pic.twitter.com/X284AelWa0
— Nasir Ahmad (@nasir9002) February 5, 2023
According to the reports, the two-year-old clip is of a cleric addressing an event organised to mark Kashmir Day.
The cleric calls Ahmadis “traitors” amid applause from the crowd.
He further asks the people gathered at the event to start a campaign against ‘Qadianis’ to remove them from government jobs.
He says there is no place for ‘Qadianis’ in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, human rights activists and International Human Rights Committee have condemned the remarks made in the video in the presence of police officials.
⚠️ INCIDENT REPORT
STATE AND NON-STATE ACTORS COLLABORATE TO INSTIGATE HATRED AGAINST AHMADIS: “Qadianis (Ahmadis) are traitors… they should be expelled from Pakistan”
⬇️ Full report pic.twitter.com/vxIR32pdPJ
— International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) (@IHumanRightsC) February 7, 2023
A video got viral on social media, a while ago, in which a person is declaring Ahmadis as traitors and asking the audience to start a campaign against
Ahmadis and audience including personals of law enforcing agencies were clapping.pic.twitter.com/jNxzkAyA1K— International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) (@IHumanRightsC) February 7, 2023
The video resurfaces amid an increase in attacks against Ahmadi worship places.
A representative from the Ahmadi press section had shared a list of attacks on Ahmadi worship places this year with Dissent Today.
According to the list, police in Wazirabad destroyed the minarets of a worship place on January 10th; miscreants destroyed the minarets of a worship place in Karachi on January 18th. In a similar attack, minarets of a worship place in Saddar Karachi were also destroyed on February 2nd. Miscreants also set fire to two Ahmadi worship places in Umerkot and Mirpurkhas, respectively, on February 3rd.
