Talwandi Khajurwali, District Gujranwala; July 6&7, 2022: ThePunjabPolice again committed the same enormity as they were used to during the earlier Usman Buzdar (PTI) rule. They destroyed 53 Ahmadiyya gravestones — in District Gujranwala.
The opponents had written to Rahwali Cantt police station against the use of Islamic inscriptions in the Ahmadiyya cemeteries of Talwandi Khajurwali. The police was investigating the issue. The police told Ahmadis that their graves had Kalima written on them. They were told that the Constitution does not forbid Ahmadis use of Islamic scripts, but as per law they cannot pose to be Muslims. Ahmadis can surely act according to their beliefs within their own walls. Therefore, Ahmadis offered to build a wall around their graveyard to solve the issue. The police didn’t agree to that.
There are two Ahmadiyya cemeteries in Talwandi Khajurwali; one is located on Thatta Dadar Road and the other on Ballewala Road. There are a few graves of Ahmadis in the joint cemetery.
At about midnight of 6 and 7 July, 2022, a heavy police force from Rahwali Cantt arrived at the Ahmadiyya cemetery at Ballewala Road in five vehicles and broke down 19 tombstones there. Thereafter they went to the cemetery at Thatta Dadar Road, and destroyed 34 gravestones there. The police thus destroyed 53 Ahmadis’ tombstones in total, and took away all the debris with them. Prior to the operation, the police had blocked the surrounding area by putting up a barricade, and no one was allowed to come near.
The Punjab is ruled jointly these days by PML-Q and PTI, with Mr. Parvez Elahi as the chief minister.
