"We are not satisfied with the security arrangements. We have cancelled the mass funeral programme,” Salim-u-din, a spokesman for Lahore’s Ahmadi community told AFP by telephone.

“We have dug a total of 93 graves and burials are under way. More than 50 bodies have been buried until now,” the spokesman said.

Burials were also under way in Chenab Nagar, a town 160 kilometres west of Lahore and a spiritual centre for the Ahmadi community in Pakistan.

Officials in Lahore insisted that the death toll from Friday’s attacks on two Ahmadi worship places in the city was unchanged.

“As per my record, 82 people have died, but we are collecting fresh information from the hospitals,” Amin Chupra, an administrative official told AFP by telephone.

The victims were killed when militants wearing suicide vests burst into prayer halls at Ahmadis’ worship place in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu and Model Town areas, firing guns, throwing grenades and taking hostages in Lahore’s deadliest sectarian attack.

“We have been receiving threats for the last year,” Qamar Suleman, a community leader told AFP at Garhi Shahu Saturday.

The day after the attack the worship place was still scattered with broken glass and stained with blood and human flesh on its green carpet and walls.

“Three terrorists started spraying bullets, I can not explain that... in words,” said Ishaq Ahmed, a community volunteer at Garhi Shahu, where dozens of people were killed.

“I believed I would be killed as they could see me at any time,” said Ahmed, who hid at the worship place's main gate when the attack began.

“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was involved in these attacks. Terrorists were trained in Miranshah (the main town of North Waziristan),” Akram Naeem, a senior police official told reporters in Lahore and added that police have arrested two terrorists.

“Six terrorists in two groups carried out these attacks. Two were arrested, two have been killed” he said adding that the remaining two acted as facilitators outside the two mosques and police are pursuing them.

Grenades, Kalashnikovs, detonators, three suicide vests and four kilogrammes of explosives have been recovered from the two sites.

In Chenab Nagar, markets and bazaars remained closed and people were seen going in groups to the main graveyard, an AFP photographer said.

Ahmadis, who have been declared non-Muslim by Pakistan, may not be buried in Muslim graveyards, and thier main graveyard is in Chenab Nagar.

A city of eight million people, including two million members of the Ahmadi sect, Lahore has increasingly suffered Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence, with around 265 people killed in nine attacks since March 2009.

A US State Department report on human rights says that 11 Ahmadis were killed for their faith in 2009.

The gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw grenades at two Ahmadi worship places in Lahore’s Model Town and Garhi Shahu neighbourhoods.
Rizwan Naseer, director general of an ambulance service, told Reuters 30 bodies had been taken to hospitals in the city.
City officials had earlier put the death toll at 14.
“There are some hostages and we are planning an attack,” said Haider Ashraf, a senior police office in the neighbourhood of Garhi Shahu. “Their lives are under threat.”
Shooting continued at Garhi Shahu.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion quickly fell on the Pakistani Taliban.
“The operation is not even over yet, so it’s too early to say who is behind these attacks. But my guess is that like most other attacks, there would be some link to the Taliban or their associated militants,” said a Lahore-based security official.
In Model Town, police said one gunman had been arrested and another killed.
“The prayer leader was giving a sermon when we heard firing and blasts. Everybody stood up and then two gunmen barged into the place of worship and sprayed bullets,” Fateh Sharif, a 19-year-old student, told Reuters from Model Town.
“They had long beards. They were carrying rucksacks.”
Lahore's deputy commissioner Sajjad Bhutta said a suicide vest packed with explosives was recovered from the worship place in Model Town, where some attackers escaped. One fired at a television van before the area was made safe.
“He was young, clean-shaven. He sprayed bullets at our van while fleeing the scene,” Rabia Mehmood, a reporter for Express Television, told Reuters.
Attacks launched after prayers
Witnesses said the assaults were launched shortly after prayers.
“I saw some gunmen run towards the Ahmadis' place of worship and then I heard blasts and gunfire,” Mohammad Nawaz, a resident, told Reuters.
Ahmadis are a minority religious community founded in the late 19th century. They hold unorthodox beliefs, including that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion and died in Kashmir.
Some also believe that prophets have come after Prophet Mohammad but that he retains his primacy.
Pakistan is the only Muslim state to have declared Ahmadis non-Muslims. Its four million-odd members have seen their religious rights in overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan curtailed by law.
Pakistan, a key US ally in the fight against militancy, is often the scene of sectarian violence, with militants from Sunni Muslim groups attacking Shia Muslim and Christian communities.