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| Asma Jahangir is the first women to be elected as the president of SCBA |
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By Imran Jattala | October 31, 2010
The International Khatm-e Nubuwwat movement threatened fierce confrontations if the newly elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association(SCBA), Asma Jahangir will show sympathy towards Ahmadis, an Urdu newspaper of Pakistan reported Saturday.
Asma Jahangir, a renowned human rights activist, is the first women to be elected as the president of SCBA.
The International Khatm-e Nubuwwat movement is a band of radicals belonging to various extremist factions, some of whom are outlawed as terrorists groups for supporting Al-Qaeda, Taliban and other known terrorist groups such as Dawat Tehrir and Jaish Muhammad.
The movement demanded from the government to take action for a ‘practical’ enforcement of the anti-Ahmaiyya laws, a hint at the movement’s long-standing demand for granting capital punishment to all Ahmadis for being apostates of Islam.
The ultimatum was issued as the rouge group completed its three-day training session entitled “Khatm-e Nubuwwat Course” for its hardcore members.
The organizers also pledged a ‘violent agitation’ if the government will allow Ahmadis to take security measures for self-protection in Rabwah (Chanab Nagr), Punjab.
“The law enforcement agencies and Qadians (Ahmadis] will be responsible for the outcome,” it was warned.
The group leaders have not been shy about making calls for the murder of Ahmadi Muslims.
Mullah Nasir-ud Din Khan Khakwani chaired the session and proclaimed he draws authority for the movement’s actions from prophets, their disciples and scriptures.
“We are here to assure that the [institution of] prophethood remains closed for good,” the group leaders pledged.
“We pledge full support by our shrines for volunteering individuals and organizations in the cause of ‘Khatm-e Nubuwwat,” Mullah Khakwani was reported to have announced.
The gathering was also addressed by several preachers namely Mullah M. Alyas Chinyoti, Member of the Punjab Assembly; Qari M. Rafiq Wajhawi, and Abdul Raouf Farooqi of Ihrar-e Islam among others.
Evidenced by their many videotaped strategy sessions repeatedly surfaced on the Internet, the Khatm-e Nubuwwat group is known to use such gatherings to discuss and find innovative ways for the verbal and physical abuse of minorities in Pakistan and the Ahmadi Muslims in particular.
Mullah Sohail Bawa, a London based preacher of the International Khatm-e Nubuwwat movement recently promised a 1953-like bloodbath of the Ahmadis if their legal status was restored as Muslims in Pakistan.
Bawa was referring to the violent anti-Ahmadiyya agitation of 1953 in Lahore which resulted in violence spreading throughout the Punjab and enactment of the first Martial Law in Pakistan.
Again in 1974, anti-Ahmadiyya riots erupted throughout Pakistan after a group of medical students traveling on a train from the Punjab hurled insults at Ahmadi girls at Rabwah railway station which exploded into a full-blown brawl between Ahmadi and non-Ahmadi youngsters.
More recently, 87 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community were murdered in two synchronized terrorist attacks on Ahmadiyya Mosques in Lahore on Friday, 28th May 2010,
According to several police and media reports the attackers were found to have been recruited by the Punjab Taliban and assisted by the Raiwind religious centers' boarding houses. It was further learnt that the captured terrorist was treated ‘royally’ by the doctors belonging to the students’ wing of Jama’at Islami in the Punjab.
About Rabwah:
Now legally known as Chanab Nadar, the Ahmadiyya town of Rabwah came into being when the members purchased the land from the government in late 1940s and started developing a city in the barren hills on the banks of Chanab River.
The Ahmadi membership had named the town ‘Rabwah’ which constitutes 98% of the town’s population.
During the Shareef brothers’ government in mid-1990s the town was renamed ‘Chanab Nagar’ by the authorities at the behest of Pakistani anti-Ahmadiyya mullahs part of the Khatm-e Nubuwwat movement and other extremist factions.
-- Imran Jattala, a Los Angeles based freelance journalist, is the founder and managing editor of Ahmadiyya Times. He can be reached at ijattala@ahmadiyyatimes.com
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