They only came to pray. They paid with their lives. Friday Prayers on 28th May 2010 for the Ahmadis of Lahore will always be remembered in blood and tears. It was supposed to be a day like any other. The Friday congregation of the community gathered as usual to offer their devotion. Immaculately dressed, heads bowed before God, serenity in the air. Then terror struck. Armed men with suicide vests and grenades descended like demons on two of the major …
New York – Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments should bring to justice those responsible for the May 2010 attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques that killed 94 worshipers, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 28, 2010, militants attacked two Ahmadiyya places of worship in the city of Lahore with guns, grenades, and suicide bombs, killing 94 people and wounding well over 100. The Punjabi Taliban, a local affiliate of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Pakistani Taliban or TTP), claimed responsibility. Two men were …
On 30th April 2012 the local headquarters of the local Ahmadiyya youth organization MKA Rabwah were renamed to Ewan-e-Qudoos after a prominent Ahmadi Muslim Master Abdul Qudoos who was the President of the Nusrat Abad chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Rabwah. The 43 year old Master died on 30th March 2012 after being brutally tortured by the local police in Rabwah. The office was renamed as per the instructions of His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad the worldwide head …
The accounts of the torture meted out to Abdul Qudoos Ahmad, an Ahmadi school teacher, are gory and mind numbing. The fact that police were complicit in this heinous act exacerbates the woes of his bereaved family. Their plight is unimaginable; the guardians of justice – who are expected to provide recourse, are the culprits here. This is not the first time that humanity has been shamed in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Ahmadis have been rendered outcasts in their …
The use of social media by mainstream media outlets has increase dramatically over the past few years. And by grace of God, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been quick to adapt to these diverse changes. Majlis Ansar Sultan ul Qalam has played a significant role in defending the beliefs of Islam Ahmadiyya through social and mainstream media platforms. Now Khudam-ul-Ahmadiyya Muqami has also joined in to create MASQ Muqami a local division of Majlis Sultan ul Qalam. Sultan ul Qalam …
Mr Master Abdul Qudoos Ahmad (43) a government school teacher in education department and the president of local chapter of Rabwah named Nusrat Abad died after falling victim to brutal police torture in Rabwah. Mr Qudoos was taken into custody on 10th February 2012 and was kept in a private torture cell run by Chenab Nagar Police Station House Officer (SHO) Khadim Hussain on suspicion of murdering a local stamp paper dealer Ahmad Yousaf of Nusrat Abad. The illegal custody …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sheikh Tahir Ahmad who served as S.H.O (Senior Head Officer) at Rabwah Police Station was fired upon from a car by unknown gunmen and killed while he was on Patrol. Police has sealed off the surrounding areas and over 33 people have been arrested on suspicion of murder and have been moved to an unknown place. Tahir was currently appointed at the Chiniot City Police Station. Police in Rabwah is known to have links with land mafia and drug dealers. …
With the sort of things we see, hear and observe in this day and age, you might be tempted to think nothing can surprise you anymore. But last month I met Sitara Brooj Akbar, and my sceptical bubble was entirely burst. Scoring a Band 7 on your IELTS exam is pretty impressive when you’re in your 20s, it is nothing short of amazing when you are Sitara, who is all of 11 years old. When I saw her at the …