Pakistan News: Although Pakistan is a Muslim country, where the festival of Eid is celebrated with joy. Despite this, there is a section of Muslims here, whom the Pak government does not allow to celebrate this religious festival. For this, there is a proper.

Highlights

• Ahmadiya Muslims fined Rs 5 lakh for celebrating Eid.
• Religious restrictions on Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan.
• An affidavit is being taken to stop Ahmadiya Muslims from celebrating Eid.

Although the festival of Eid is celebrated with joy throughout Pakistan, there are some areas where people are being stopped from celebrating Eid. This restriction is being imposed on a particular community. You must be wondering why a community following the Muslim religion is not being allowed to celebrate Eid? Let us tell you why the Pakistani government is stopping Ahmadiya Muslims from celebrating Eid?

Although Pakistan is a Muslim country, where the festival of Eid is celebrated with joy. Despite this, there is a section of Muslims here too, whom the Pakistani government does not allow to celebrate this religious festival. For this, a formal affidavit is also being taken. This affidavit is being taken from Ahmadiya Muslims of Pakistan's troubled provinces Sindh and Punjab.

If you celebrate Eid, you will have to pay a fine of Rs 5 lakh

Ahmadiya Muslims have been warned that if they celebrate Eid, they will have to pay a fine of Rs 5 lakh.

In many areas of Punjab and Sindh, the Ahmadiya community is also being pressured not to perform religious rituals and sacrifice inside the house. This year the festival of Eid is being celebrated on 7 June. According to local media reports, police are detaining Ahmadiya people at many places. These people are being forced to sign affidavits by threatening or harassing them.

Pakistan is home to 2 million Ahmadiyya Muslims

Some communities in Pakistan have always been the target of the army and the government, including the Ahmadiya community. Amnesty International's June 2024 report says that at least 36 Ahmadiyas were arbitrarily arrested in Punjab so that they could not celebrate Eid. Under the 1974 constitutional amendment in Pakistan, Ahmadiyas are not considered Muslims, while their population here is around 20 lakh. They are prevented from following religious customs like reading the Quran, offering Namaz, while incidents of attacks and harassment on them keep happening.

Who are Ahmadiyya Muslims?

The Ahmadiya Muslim community was started in Qadian village in Ludhiana district of Punjab. In 1889, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed declared himself Caliph and taught lessons like peace, love, justice and purity. Mirza Ghulam Ahmed considered it as the revival of Islam and gathered people against fundamentalism and religious war. Due to this liberal thinking of the Ahmadiya community, they are irritating in the eyes of fundamentalists. After the riots in 1974 in Pakistan, the then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declared Ahmadiya Muslims as non-Muslims. According to the law here, Ahmadiyas cannot declare themselves as associated with Islam and if they do so, they will be punished for up to 3 years. Due to being different from common Muslims, they are tortured a lot in Pakistan.