The Ahmadi religion is an offshoot of Islam, but Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974. Ahmadi homes and places of worship are often targeted by Sunni militants who consider them heretical.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen shot and killed a member of the minority Ahmadi community and wounded another person in eastern Pakistan, police said on Friday, the second such killing in a week.

A member of Pakistan's minority Ahmadi community was stabbed to death in the eastern town of Rabwah on Friday allegedly for refusing to chant Islamist slogans, a community activist and police said.

The Ahmadi religion is an offshoot of Islam, but Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974. Ahmadi homes and places of worship are often targeted by Sunni militants who consider them heretical.

There are about half a million of Ahmadis in Pakistan, which has a population of 250 million. The Ahmadi religion is an offshoot of Islam, but Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Gunmen shot and killed a member of the minority Ahmadi community and wounded another person in eastern Pakistan, police said on Friday, the second such killing in a week.