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Nawabshah: Targeted Killing of Ahmadi Muslim

With a second killing in a week it seems that the murderous campaign against Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Nawab Shah has gotten intense and the Police is unable to do anything about it. 58 year old Mr Maqsood Ahmad who was the resident of Dar ul Rehmat, Rabwah was shot dead in Mohni Bazar Nawab Shah by two unknown assailants at around 3 PM on 7th March 2012. Mr Maqsood worked as a salesperson for a local Homeopathic supply company …

Ahmadi murdered in Nawab Shah, Sindh

An 80 year old Ahmadi, Chaudhary Muhammad Akram was murdered in an attack in Nawab Shah, Sindh. His 18 year old grandson Muneeb Ahmad was also victim of this fatal attack and is in hospital undergoing life saving surgery. Mr Chaudhary Muhammad Akram was coming back from his son in law’s shop to his home when unknown assailants opened fire on him. He died on the spot while his grandson Muneeb Ahmad was taken to hospital in critical condition. Mr …

Mayor & MP of Lewisham attend Mosque opening in Catford, London

Muslims urged to cast aside differences of religion, ethnicity and nationality for the sake of peace and unity. A clarion call to Muslims to set aside differences and work relentlessly for peace and unity in the UK has been made on the occasion of the opening of a new mosque in South East London. To mark the opening, and as part of its ongoing commitment to serving mankind, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community donated thousands of pounds to British charities. Representatives …

Muslim Community uses mosques to save lives, Wins Praise From Minister

Communities Minister Andrew Stunnell has praised an Islamic community’s services to humanity on the occasion of the launch of a new blood donation drive at London’s oldest purpose-built mosque. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is organising the blood donations as part of the community’s commitment to be of service to Queen and country. It is being launched on Thursday 2 February 2012 at the Fazl Mosque (also known as the London Mosque) in Southfields, Putney. Andrew Stunell, Parliamentary Under Secretary of …

Rawalpindi: Jammat ud Dawa threatens Ahmadiyya Centre

As the political and judicial crises deepen in Pakistan, the only winners emerging from the scene seem to to be the extremists. Lashkar e Taiba has reemerged with the new name of Jammat ud Dawa led by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Jammat ud Dawa was a declared a terrorist organization and Saeed its terrorist leader in 2008 by the UN. Even though Jammat ud Dawa was declared a terrorist organization by the UN it operates freely in Pakistan and has so …

The Sahiwal Saga

“General Zia singled out Ahmadis in an open and vicious hate campaign of persecution. He and members of his administration made numerous public speeches urging Pakistanis to seek out, expose and even to kill Ahmadis.” In 1977, Gen Mohammed Zia ul Haq usurped the constitution of Pakistan and enacted Operation Fair Play by seizing power in Pakistan. He declared martial law and imprisoned the democratically elected Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and in the first of many lies and broken …

Canada’s Foreign Minister visits Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in London

How the Canadian ‘Office of Religious Freedom’ should function? Yesterday, Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at the Fazl Mosque in London. His Excellency, Gordon Campbell, the Canadian High Commissioner to the UK and other members of staff were also present at the meeting which lasted around forty minutes. During the meeting, the Foreign Minister mentioned how the Canadian Government was in the process of setting up …

Ahmadis travel to India for the annual convention

Thousands of Ahmadis from Pakistan are making their way to India to take part in the 120th annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian (Punjab, India). The three day convention which will take place from 26th to 28th December 2011 will be attended by tens of thousands of Ahmadi delegates from India as well as from neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. To make the journey easy for the delegates a major transport operation is underway. Over …

Aqsa Road taken over by illegal cart vendors

Rabwah’s central most road Aqsa Road that connects the Sargodha Road bus stop and Fazle Omar hospital to Aqsa Roundabout has seen a huge increase in the number of illegal card vendors occupying public space in the past year or so. Rabwah’s main bazar has been practically over run by street vendors who come in from adjoining townships to sell their goods, from push carts to donkey carts every single inch of public space has been snatched up, with barely …

Mansoor Ijaz – The memogate controversy

Events in Pakistan have recently taken a twist after a controversial memo appeared said to be drafted by Pakistani Ambassador to the USA Hussain Haqqani. The memo was ousted by an American Business Man of Pakistani descent Mansoor Ijaz. The memo is said to have the approval of President Zardari as well. Ever since the memo came to the light Mr Haqqani has handed over his resignation and President Zardari seems to have fled to Dubai under the pretence of …

Police officer shot at Virginia Tech Campus

Virginia Tech which has an enrolment of around 30,000 has issued a campus wide alert after a Police officer along with another possible person have been shot by an unknown gunman near the campus’ parking lot, The same parking lot where four years ago in 2007 the most deadliest shooting massacre took place in which 33 people were killed . As the suspect remains at large, the campus alert is asking members of the faculty and students to stay inside …