70-year-old minority Ahmadi doctor shot dead in Pakistan

"The victim's only crime was that he was an Ahmadi," Mahmood said and urged the government to take measures to stop religious extremists from promoting violence against Ahmadis.

Meanwhile, an elderly Ahmadi community leader was harassed by a mob of over 100 men outside the community’s worship place in Kasur, some 50 kms from Lahore.

"The mob comprising workers of the extremist outfit Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) forcibly stopped the minority community members from offering prayers and threatened to occupy the worship place if they go ahead with it," Mahmood said.

He said that the mob asked the community leader to also remove ‘Muhammad’ from his name.

The mob however was dispersed on the arrival of police.

Since the start of this year, as many as five worship places of the persecuted religious community have come under attack in Punjab province.

In two such incidents, local administration was directly involved in destroying the minarets of a worship place, as per a report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.