Rabwah Times

Thailand releases Almost 100 Ahmadi Refugees

BANGKOK: Almost 100 Pakistani refugees have been freed from Bangkok’s overcrowded immigration prison in an initiative spearheaded by Thai human rights activists. The Thai Committee for Refugees said the release on bail of 96 members of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya Muslim sect was the first such large-scale release of refugees who Thai authorities locked up merely for being refugees. The group negotiated the release with the state National Human Rights Commission and immigration officials. The detainees, about a third of whom are …

Football: Bhawana vs Rabwah Highlights

01 May 2011 – Dar ul Yemen football ground set the scene for a friendly football match between Bhawana ( Jhang ) vs Rabwah (Fazl e Umer Football Club). The visiting team came from Bhanwana which is a locality of Jhang Distt the centre of Anti-Ahmadiyya hate campaign, but those religious feeling were set aside for the game. Team Rabwah sported striped blue shirts while for the host team the colour of the day was black.Both teams played energetically till …

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community celebrates the Royal Wedding

London’s oldest & Western Europes Larged Mosques are to celebrate the Royal wedding with invited guests and local residents ‘as a day of joy for all of us.’ Invitations have been sent out by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to hundreds of homes in the vicinity of the London Mosque & Biatulfutuh Mosque inviting families to celebrate the wedding with worshippers at the mosque. A large marquee will be erected and dinner and barbecue organised from 6-8pm. Prayers will be said …

Rana Abrar Hussain – Face of Yellow Journalism

A few days ago Chenab Nagar (Rabwah) was rocked by a terrible crime which happened in the local Main marketplace where a Local journalist named Rana Abrar Hussain was shot dead. This resulted in the local newspapers and media outlets publishing hate filled news reports. In these reports the readers were lead to believe that the murder was carried out on the orders of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. This resulted in rallies being carried out in different parts of the …

Extremists’ Hate Campaign targets Ahmadiyya Muslims

The dangerous rift in south London’s Muslim community has been likened to the "beginnings of the Holocaust". Lord Avebury the long serving vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, said the extremist views were being “imported from Pakistan" and compared the vilification of Ahmadiyya Muslims in south London with the beginnings of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Our investigations have revealed that in recent months Ahmadi residents, businessmen and politicians have been actively demonised and ostracised by UK Islamic fundamentalist …

Hardliners call for deaths of Ahmadi Muslims – Ahmadiyya

By Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent For The Independent Islamic extremists have started openly calling for the destruction of a controversial Muslim sect in a major escalation of sectarian conflict within British Islam, an investigation by The Independent has revealed. Members of the Ahmadiyya Community have seen a significant upsurge in threats and intimidation over the past four months, sparked by an extremist attack on two of their largest mosques in Pakistan earlier this year. Hardline Islamists in Britain have …

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jammat has no interest in seeking Government or Politics

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat will always continue to serve humanity – Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has categorically rebuked the false notion that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat has any interest in seeking political power or leadership of any kind. He said the sole purpose of the community was to seek the pleasure of God Almighty and as a means to achieve this, the Jamaat was involved with humanitarian relief throughout the …

Stone crushers eating up Archaeological Sites

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 …

Ahmadiyya Mosque in Mardan attacked by a Suicide Bomb

It is with great regret that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat confirms that yesterday, 3rd September 2010 its Bait-ul-Zikr mosque in Mardan, Pakistan was attacked by two terrorists. One Ahmadi Muslim, Sheikh Amir Raza was martyred during this attack, whilst further loss was prevented by the bravery of the Ahmadi Muslims charged with securing the premises. FACTS On 3rd September 2010 at around 1.05pm local time Mr Ata-ul Hameed was leading the Friday prayers at the Bait-ul-Zikr mosque at Muslimabad, Canal …

US citizen Killed in religiously motivated attack in Pakistan

Pir Habib al-Rehman becomes second Ahmadi Muslim killed in Pakistan this week. It is with great sadness and regret that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat hereby confirms that a well-known and loved Ahmadi Muslim, Pir Habib al-Rehman (60) was martyred earlier today near Sanghar in Sindh Province. According to details currently available Pir Habib-al-Rehman was on his way to his farm when two masked assailants approached his vehicle and shot him twice. One of the shots fired was directly at his …