Systematic Eradication of Ahmadi Identity: Ramadan Mob Attacks Escalate as Ralioke Mosque Targeted
Genocide by Intimidation, Arrests & Forced Exodus: Pakistan’s Anti-Ahmadi Apartheid Deepens
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) strongly condemns the continued escalation of violence against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. On 28 March 2025, during another Friday in the holy month of Ramadan, a violent mob led by the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) surrounded the Ahmadiyya mosque in Ralioke, District Sialkot. The mob’s aim was clear: to stop Ahmadis from offering Friday prayers through intimidation, hate speech, and threats of violence.
Ralioke, Sialkot: Worship Suppressed Under Mob Rule
A violent mob affiliated with Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) assembled outside the Ahmadiyya mosque in Ralioke, Sialkot, while members of the Ahmadiyya community were present inside the mosque. The mob chanted hate-filled slogans, incited religious violence, and issued direct threats, creating an atmosphere of terror during what should have been a moment of peaceful worship. Disturbingly, a video1 has surfaced showing the mob vociferously threatening the Ahmadi community while uniformed police officers stood by, taking no action to intervene or protect the worshippers. This footage serves as yet another chilling example of the state’s passive complicity in religious persecution.
1Link to video: https://x.com/faith_defence/status/1905754361483145317?s=46&t=qJrK62IRsj8eXEilMTXPBA
The result: worship was denied under duress, echoing a terrifying trend across Pakistan where Ahmadis are not only criminalized but actively prevented from existing as a faith group.
Coordinated Campaign of Hate: 2025 Timeline of Terror
Since January 2025, there has been an unprecedented escalation in state-backed and mob-led assaults on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Below is a partial timeline illustrating the breadth of this ethnic and religious cleansing campaign:
- Jan 16 – Daska: 100-year-old Ahmadi mosque, built by Pakistan’s first Foreign Minister, demolished under TLP pressure.
- Feb 14 – Malir, Karachi: Mosque sealed; 2 Ahmadis arrested.
- Feb 28 – Sargodha & Daska: Dozens arrested, including minors and disabled persons.
- Mar 7 – Karachi: Mosque closure led to 6 arrests, 25 charged.
- Mar 11 – Bahawalnagar: Minarets destroyed by mob.
- Mar 12-13 – Okara: Violent TLP sit-in during Ramadan.
- Mar 14 – Tharo Mandi, Pasrur: 29 arrested for offering prayers.
- Mar 15 – Lahore High Court Bar: Extremist leaders glorify knife violence and terrorism at official legal forums.
- Mar 19 – Talagang: Mosque security dismantled under mob threat.
- Mar 21 – Azad Kashmir: 76 Ahmadi graves desecrated in a horrifying pre-dawn raid.
- Mar 21 – Raiwind & Islampura (Lahore): Mosques attacked, minarets torn down, elderly detained, dozens arrestedIHRC IR 24032025.
Ethnic Cleansing Through Fear, Lawfare & Hate
Pakistan has turned into a state where peaceful worship by Ahmadis is criminalized under discriminatory laws (Sections 295 & 298). These laws not only legalize apartheid but enable TLP to act as judge, jury, and executioner in the streets, supported or ignored by law enforcement.
These actions constitute no less than genocide by attrition—a slow erasure of identity, belief, and community through state-sanctioned violence, harassment, and incarceration.
IHRC Demands Immediate Global Action
We urgently appeal to:
• United Nations, OIC, EU, UK, US, and all human rights bodies
• International religious freedom advocates
We demand:
- Immediate release of all Ahmadis arrested for peaceful worship.
- Unsealing of all Ahmadi mosques across Pakistan.
- Accountability for police complicity and negligence.
- Repeal of anti-Ahmadi laws from Pakistan’s Penal Code.
- Designation of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) as a terrorist organization globally.
From mosques to minarets, from graves to gatherings—Ahmadis are under siege. This is no longer passive discrimination; this is state-enabled religious genocide.
It must stop. Now.
