Karachi mob lynches minority Ahmadi man over Friday prayer rumours; shocking videos emerge from Pakistan | WATCH VIDEO

Over two dozen Ahmadis were taken into police custody for safety reasons in Pakistan after a member of the persecuted minority group was lynched by a Karachi mob on Friday. According to reports, hundreds of people belonging to various religious parties targeted Ahmadis in the Saddar neighbourhood of Karachi over rumours of the community offering Friday prayers.

The crowd chanted slogans as they unleashed violence outside a place of worship of the Ahmadis before the victim was attacked with bricks and sticks. The mob, amongst many extremist groups, had members of the anti-blasphemy political group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), news agency AFP said in a report. 

The Karachi Police later told the press that at least 25 Ahmadis were taken into protective custody to avoid further escalation. The French news agency claimed that the policemen had to negotiate with the at least 600-strong mob to take the minority community members to safety in prison vehicles.

It was outside an Ahmadi religious place from the Colonial era that the violence reportedly took place. For the unversed, Pakistani law has declared Ahmadis as a non-Muslim community and they are not allowed to conduct Islamic practices. Hardline elements like the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan voluntarily track the community and report to the police if activities happen at their places of worship on Fridays.

Ahmadis, who number around 10 million worldwide, consider themselves Muslims, and their faith is identical to mainstream Islam in almost every way, but their belief in another messiah has marked them blasphemous non-believers. It is said that six Ahmadis were killed in 2024 alone in Pakistan, and more than 280 since 1984.