Nearly 40 graves belonging to the minority Ahmadi community have been desecrated by religious extremists believed to be the members of a radical Islamist party in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Monday.
Hateful graffiti targeting Ahmadis also appeared outside their houses in Sheikhupura, some 50km from Lahore, a Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistan official said. Extremist elements believed to be the members of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) demolished the gravestones.
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