America celebrates its Independence Day on July 4th while Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day on August 14th. This nearness of the Independence Days of America and Pakistan is the only thing that can be said to define the relationship of the U.S. to Pakistan as “close.” In all other respects, we are as far apart as night and day. America deserves due credit because its Constitution and amendments grant its citizens rights and freedoms and the means to secure and …
On Friday 29th July Sahibzadi Hadhrat Nasira Begum sahiba mother of Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad(aba) Khalifatul Masih V (current head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) passed away in Rabwah. May Allah award her with great place in paradise and may Allah strengthen the hands of our beloved Huzur(aba). Funeral was held on the 30th of July in Rabwah which was attended by over 20,000 people, the burial took place afterwards. All this was broadcasted live on Ahmadiyya Muslim community’s TV Channel …
Since the 50’s from the time when Hadhrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad the 3rd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was the principal of now Nationalized Talim ul Islam College Rabwah has been a breeding ground for top sportsmen. From volleyball, rowing, hockey, Tent Pegging to basketball the city has had one of the best Sports records in Pakistan. Rabwah also had one of the best boating clubs in the country and boating at the riverside was a popular past time for …
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but my Mom says that my first word was Allah. Well this is what supposed to happen when your house is so close to the mosque and the Azaan comes out of it 5 times a day. I still remember my grandparents celebrating my aameen when I finished Quran at the age of 5. How everyone was so proud. When I started school, I was one of those kids who didn’t miss …
Nadeem Paracha laments about Pakistanis celebrating Islamic history outside Pakistan. (DAWN: Talking tall- July 10) Muslim thinkers of the sub-continent repeatedly drilled such pan-Islamism and Allama Iqbal fostered this ideology in these words: Aik Hoon Muslim Haram Ki Pasbani Kay Liyay Neel Kay Sahal Sey Lay Kar Tabkhake Kashgher (I am a Muslim to protect the Sacred House from the shores of Nile to Kashgher) If Pakistanis are obsessed with Islam, it comes as no surprise as history books are …
RABWAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – At the office of what claims to be one of Pakistan’s oldest newspapers, workers scan copy for words it is not allowed to use — words like Muslim and Islam. “The government is constantly monitoring this publication to make sure none of these words are published,” explains our guide during a visit to the offices of al Fazl, the newspaper of the Ahmadiyya sect in Pakistan. This is Rabwah, the town the Ahmadis built when they …
RABWAH: When a fire broke out at a building in Chiniot, the district administration called the rescue service in Rabwah for help. The irony that the Chiniot building was owned by a member of the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat movement is not lost to Rabwah’s rescue services. A former tae kwon do instructor with the Pakistan Army, Nadir Saidain says the fire service was started because the district administration refused to assist in rescue operations in Rabwah town. The service, like many others …
RABWAH: The tombstones in Rabwah’s graveyards tell a macabre tale. The graves of the men killed in the attacks on Ahmadi places of worship in Lahore – retired army officers and young factory workers among them – rest with the dozens killed due to the persecution of the Ahmadiyya community. The graveyards have been defiled in the past as locals have released animals in the graveyards or trod on the graves. Other tombstones in a row show how entire families …
In the middle of the night when it was all peace and quiet at the local Police Station, just at the opposite end of the road thieves calmly made their way to the corner shop and started off by cutting the heavy metal locks and cleanly placed them on the branches of a nearby tree. The lifted up the store shutter and took off with the cash drawer with an unknown amount of cash and mobile phone vouchers. The burglary …
All-Pakistan Students Khatm-e-Nubuwat Federation are handing out Pamphlets labelling members of the Ahmadiyya community “Wajibul Qatl” (‘liable to be murdered’), and inciting people to attack followers of the faith, are being openly and widely distributed in Punjab’s hub Faisalabad, Not only that the weekly Khatm-e-Nabuwat magazine website states that anyone who commits the “crime” of leaving “Islam” should be killed. But the shocking fact is that the leaflet contains a list of names of Ahmadi industrialists, doctors and businesses. The …
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 …
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 …