In November 2020, a teenage Muslim boy opened fire on a family of Ahmadis, a religious minority in Pakistan who consider themselves Muslims but are not considered such by the government and face endemic prejudice and persecution. Tahir Ahmad Mahmood was killed, and his father and two uncles suffered injuries. The teenage culprit was restrained and apprehended by police, whom he told his motive: the Ahmadis “were insulting Islam” and possessed unacceptable “religious differences.”

“Ahmadis are not even safe inside their homes. They cannot perform their religious obligations inside the four walls of their home.” - Saleem Uddin, a “spokesperson” for the Ahmadi community in Pakistan

All four men were praying inside their home at the time of the attack. Tahir, a practitioner of homeopathic medicine, was 31 at the time of his death.