LAHORE: A Pakistani online retailer has refused to deliver order from an Ahmadiya customer living in Chenab Nagar, which stated it had ‘cancelled’ the order and will not make the delivery as they ‘can’t deliver to Qadiani areas’.
According to a local news outlet, the Pakistani online retailer in a message said, “We had received your order. We regret to inform you that we had cancelled your order and we are not delivering to Chenab Nagar as it’s blasphemous area for us. We can’t deliver to Qadiani areas.
Talking to the news outlet, the customer said it still feels like Nazi Germany as desirable goods were being refused to be delivered to an area based on the religious beliefs of a community.
Earlier in June, a mob allegedly tried to prevent the burial of an Ahmadi woman in Punjab’s Sheikhupura district. The June 5 incident, which took place in a village near Safdarabad in Sheikhupura, was first highlighted on social media.
After days of tension between the two groups over the issue, which also saw some people resort to aerial firing, negotiations were held involving religious leaders from both sides, and the Sheikhupura deputy commissioner and district police.
It was decided after the talks that “legal action will be taken against the people who took the law into their hands by brandishing weapons,” said a statement. It added that as per the agreement, members of the Ahmadi community would bury their deceased in pre-determined sites.
Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims in Pakistan through a constitutional amendment passed on September 7, 1974, during the tenure of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. This measure was later followed with Gen Ziaul Haq making it a punishable offence for Ahmadis to call themselves Muslim or to refer to their faith as Islam.
