Gunmen in northwest Pakistan have shot dead a retired air force official who was a member of the country’s Ahmadi minority, police said Thursday, bringing to seven the number of people killed in violence against the persecuted community this year.
The incident took place in Attock district on Wednesday, a spokesman for the community said. “Latif Aalam Butt, a well-known Ahmadi was killed outside his house in Kamra, district Attock. He was returning home from his stationery store, when unknown assailants repeatedly fired at him,” Saleemud Din said.
Local police also confirmed the incident, adding that Butt was 62. It was not immediately clear what role he had served in the air force.
“The victim’s son filed an application here at the police station today,” local police official Qasim Ali told AFP. “According to his son’s account, the victim owned a stationery shop in Saddar market and was returning home from his shop during the incident.”
Butt’s neighbour reported the incident and he was pronounced dead upon arrival at the local hospital, Ali quoted the son as saying.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2014.
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I am saddened by the killing of Mr Latif Alam Butt, a relative of mine. He was a peaceful and progressive person who taught his children good education. The relentless anti-Ahmadiyya propaganda by Khatam-e-Nabuwat organisation and their religious edicts of killing the Ahmadis, have contributed to such senseless opportunistic attacks. The country is undergoing variety of murderous campaigns by religious extremists and such murders are soon forgotten. Unfortunately government has consistently failed to prosecute such people who perpetrate such heinous crimes. During an attack on Ahmadiyya places of worship in May 2010, the Ahmadis through their disciplined defence were able to capture two militant suicidal terrorists however, we have yet to learn what has happened with those captured terrorists. Were they prosecuted, hanged or set free? Our thoughts and prayers go for Mr Latif Butt’s family and all the victims of current murderous rampage by Khatam-e-Nabuwat, Sipah-e-Sahaba and Taliban. May Allah protect Pakistan from such groups and May rid them once and for all. Ameen.