{"id":66915,"date":"2025-03-02T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66915"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T12:30:10","slug":"punjab-police-arrested-23-ahmadis-for-offering-friday-prayers-in-sialkot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-police-arrested-23-ahmadis-for-offering-friday-prayers-in-sialkot\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab police arrested 23 Ahmadis for offering Friday prayers in Sialkot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyParagraphFigure\">\n<p>SIALKOT: Twenty-three members of the minority <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ahmadi-worship-place-built-by-zafarullah-khan-demolished-in-sialkot\/\">Ahmadi community<\/a> were arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-cm-maryam-directs-strict-action-against-price-hike-during-ramadan\/\">Punjab<\/a> on Saturday for offering &#8216;Friday prayers&#8217;, which is prohibited for them under the law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the Hindustan Times report, Punjab police received a call that 27 Ahmadis were offering Jumma prayers at their place of worship at Daska, Sialkot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ahmadis&#8217; prayer leader Arshad Sahi was giving Friday sermon and was reading Islamic verses and other Ahmadis were listening to him, police officer Muhammad Tanzeel told.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter hurting the sentiments of local Muslims, the police registered an FIR against these 27 Ahmadis under Section 298 C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC),\u201d Tanzeel said, and 23 of them were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Section 298 C criminalizes Ahmadis who call themselves Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims, Pakistan\u2019s parliament declared the community non-Muslim in 1974. A decade later, they were not only banned from calling themselves Muslims but also from practicing aspects of Islam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adHeight313\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIALKOT: Twenty-three members of the minority Ahmadi community were arrested in Punjab on Saturday for offering &#8216;Friday prayers&#8217;, which is prohibited for them under the law. According to the Hindustan Times report, Punjab police received a call that 27 Ahmadis were offering Jumma prayers at their place of worship at Daska, Sialkot. &#8216;Ahmadis&#8217; prayer leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":66917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[852,26884],"class_list":["post-66915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-police","tag-ahmadi-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66918,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66915\/revisions\/66918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}