Rabwah Times

Security in Rabwah has been tightened as the general public gears up for the 24th International Khatme Nabuwat conference which is set to take place tomorrow on 7^th September 2011. Hundreds of posters publicizing the conference have been put up all along the route from Chiniot to Chenab Nagar (Rabwah).

The International Khatme Nabuwat Movement was setup by Molana Manzoor Chinioti and Abdul Hafeez Makki in 1985. This year’s conference will be held at Jamia Usmania in Muslim Colony, Rabwah. Read the full story

Remnants of a 4th century AD Buddhist stupa and monastery have been found on the foothills of Rabwah in area once knows as ‘Punj Peer’. The discovery was made by Chiniot based a local NGO called Lok Baithak.

The remains which include graves, walls of rooms, animal bones, pottery and meditation cells built out of stones and terracotta bricks are spread over an area of nine acres.
According to archaeologists these may be the remains of the lost OJAN or OJAIAN Buddhist University. A gold coin ranging from Kushana King 2nd’s period was also discovered.

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The blast at Yameen factory in Chiniot on 2^nd June wasn’t anything out of the ordinary and could have easily passed off as an accident but the timing of this blast made it very peculiar, as on the same day officers from the FIA were paying a visit to the factory.

The factory used to manufacture explosives which were later used in mountain blasting.

But according to confidential sources recent investigations carried out by the FIA have shown that the factory owners were actively supplying explosives to banned militant organizations, It’s also believed that explosives used in the PNS Mehran base attack also came from the very same factory.

According to the local residents who were close to the factory owners there was an increase in business in the past few years.

By Aurangzeb Malik:

The government needs to take action to stop stone crushing machines eating up the ancient mountains along the River Chenab in Chiniot/Rabwah.

The chain of mountains is going to be diminished as mountain stones have been consumed unchecked for commercial purposes for the last many decades.

In 2007, a blast in such a mountain resulted in the appearance of a cave from a mountain. The cave, local residents say, had ancient stone statues and other items. Before archaeologists could study them, a big stone rolled down and capped the cave entrance. Read the full story