Rabwah Times

British MP calls for Protection of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan

Seema Malhotra has called on the British Government to do more to protect the Ahmadi community in Pakistan. Ms Malhotra’s call comes in light of the latest harrowing attack on an Ahmadi community in Gujranwala in which homes were burnt down and two young girls of 7 and 8 killed. The MP for Feltham and Heston wrote to Phillip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, to clarify what action the government is taking to protect religious minorities in Pakistan, “I would be …

America’s oldest Muslim organization to hold 66th annual convention on Aug 15

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, one of the nation’s oldest American Muslim organizations, celebrates its 66th annual Jalsa Salana Peace Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event will take place August 15th to August 17th at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and is expected to draw about 5,000 people from across the country.

Fijian Government commends Ahmadiyya school management

The Public Service permanent secretary Parmesh Chand has commended the management of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School for committing itself in the education of children from nearby communities. The school which is located in Voloca, Batiri, Macuata today celebrated the construction and opening of the new Teachers’ Quarters. Mr Chand officiated today at the celebrations as Chief Guest. The Voloca Ahmaddiya Muslim Seconday School first opened its doors in 2003 with a total of only 40 students. The school, today, …

Ahmadiyya: Persecuted from birth to death

Rabwah, Pakistan – Seeing her lying in her hospital bed, it’s difficult to tell what Mubashara Jarra has been through. Outwardly, she appears fine. No intravenous tubes snaking into her body, and no bandages covering up her wounds. “I’m feeling much better,” she says, in a low voice. It is, perhaps, only her vacant eyes that betray her ordeal. Jarra, 32, was trapped in a room, along with many of her family members, in her home in the Pakistani city …

Jinnah persuaded to return to politics by Ahmadiyya Missionary

The history behind Jinnah’s return to Indian politics in 1934 makes for an inconvenient truth. The man whose eloquent persuasion left Jinnah no escape in returning to politics, has been forgotten in the annals of official Pakistani history. That man was not Liaqat Ali Khan and certainly not Dr. Muhammad Iqbal but Abdur Rahim Dard – an Ahmadi missionary in London. August 14, Pakistan Independence Day, is a date of great significance for Pakistanis everywhere but it has a particular …

Woman and two children burned to death by anti-Ahmadiyya mob in Gujranwala, Pakistan

A woman and two children were burnt to death when local extremists set five houses belonging to members of Ahmadiyya community on fire. On Sunday night an angry mob lead by son of a local Imam attacked Ahmadiyya community in Gujranawala a town 140 miles southeast of the capital, Islamabad, over alleged blasphemy, killing four people. Four other Ahmadis were critically injured and taken to the District Headquarter hospital. According to People Colony Circle’s Deputy Superintendent of Police the mob gathered to …

Kyrgyzstan Supreme court places restrictions on practice of Ahmadiyya faith

Muslims who adhere to the Ahmadi doctrine in Kyrgyzstan do not have the right to register with the State, and cannot organise themselves as a religious community. The Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan on 10 July rejected the appeal made by by Salamat Kyshtobayev, leader of the country’s Ahmadi Muslim community, to revoke two earlier 2013 decisions of lower courts in favour of the State Commission for Religious Affairs’ (SCRA) 2011 refusal to give state registration to the community throughout the …

Britain’s Biggest Mosque invites people to a big Break-Fast

Hundreds of people are to join Muslims at one of Western Europe’s biggest mosques to take part in the breaking of the fast in Islam’s holiest month, Ramadan. Millions of British Muslims are fasting from dawn to dusk, raising funds for charity and inviting friends and neighbours to open the fast with a meal that is part of the tradition of Islam. The breaking of the fast, with dates, is followed by prayers and a meal, known as Iftar.

Ahmadi man shot dead in Nawabshah Pakistan

Ahmadi Muslim man murdered in Nawabshah, a town 170 miles northeast of the Pakistani port city of Karachi in the Sindh province. According to a statement issued by the press department of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Pakistan the victim, 38-year-old Imtiaz Ahmad was standing in front of the business he owned in Trunk Bazaar when he was shot in the head. The incident happened at about 3:30pm local time.

American teen beaten by Israeli Police and held without charge

In a family vacation gone terribly awry, a 15 Year old Palestinian-American Tariq Abukhdeir was savagely beaten by masked Israeli Police on Thursday evening in Shuafat, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Tariq Abukhdeir is the cousin of recent lynching victim Muhammed Abu Khudair who was abducted from his neighbourhood in East Jerusalem on Wednesday and hours later his charred body was found dumped in woodland on the edge of the city.

Sri Lanka ends visa-free travel for Pakistanis and arrests Refugees

The Sri Lankan government has cancelled the on-arrival visa facility for Pakistanis. The decision was taken in view of the rising number of political asylum cases in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Ministry has informed the Pakistan government about its decision to revoke the facility. According to revised policy, Pakistanis seeking to visit Sri Lanka will now have to obtain visa before departing for the Island. Sri Lankan daily Ceylon Today reported last week that nearly 1,500 Pakistanis, many …

Khalifa of Islam condemns ISIS and calls its actions act of ‘unislamic terror’

As ISIS gains new territory and funds with which to establish an Islamic state and ‘’Caliphate’’, they are perhaps unaware that the institution of Caliphate is already in existence here in the UK. The UK first became the home to a world-wide Caliphate in 1984 when His Holiness, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth Caliph, migrated from Pakistan to England. Today, the leafy streets of Southfields, South-West London, are home to his successor, the fifth Caliph and worldwide head of the …