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This is the second such incident in a month after the minarets of the Ahmadi Jamaat account were toppled on Jamshed Road. This is the fifth Ahmadi mosque to be attacked in the last three months. Local sources said that in the latest incident the attackers belonged to TLP.
Suspected members of the far-right organization Tehreek-e-Labbaik in Pakistan reportedly looted and destroyed an Ahmadi mosque in Karachi. According to local reports, unidentified people broke the minarets of the Ahmadi Mosque in Karachi and fled. Some people wearing helmets reportedly arrived with a ladder and fled after damaging the structure of the mosque.
This is the second such incident in a month after the minarets of the Ahmadi Jamaat account were toppled on Jamshed Road. This is the fifth Ahmadi mosque to be attacked in the last three months. Local sources said that in the latest incident the attackers belonged to TLP.
What is Tehreek-e-Labaik?
According to a Reuters report, Tehreek-e-Labbaik (Movement of the Followers of the Prophet) is an extremist Sunni Islamist group whose main goal is to uphold Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws and punish blasphemers. The movement grew out of a 2015 protest campaign to demand the release of Mumtaz Qadri, a police guard who had assassinated Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in 2011 for demanding reform of the blasphemy law. Qadri was later hanged.
In Karachi Sadar, Pakistani terrorists attacked the Masjid and smashed its minaret to protest against Pakistan. Does anyone know the details? pic.twitter.com/Afl6zQr32h
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