As 14th august comes close people in Rabwah, Pakistan prepare to celebrate Pakistan’s 64th Independence Day. Flags, ticker tapes and badges have been on sale for weeks now but as the big day draws near tradesmen have seen an increase in sales. The local hospital and the town’s central mosque “The Aqsa Mosque” has also been lit up to commemorate the occasion but the Government seems to be oblivious of the occasion as the local administration offices still remain plunged …
Last two week’s monsoon rains have brought havoc to the streets of Rabwah, the lack of proper sanitation system had the water overflowing drains and onto the streets. Many of the key roads including College Road and Sahiwal Road still remain days after the torrential rain, while many low lying streets of areas like Dar ul Aloom, Dar ul Nasar and Dar ul Rehmat seem to have completely disappeared and all you can see is pools of water and the …
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 …
Even though the annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was being held miles away in the England, the small town of Rabwah in Punjab, Pakistan didn’t seem too far off from the activities. The public in Rabwah looked like as if it was part of the bustling crowd of thousands which had gathered in the English countryside for a three day annual convention. The crowd consisted of Ambassadors, public figure’s, Ahmadi’s and guests from over 90 countries around the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …