Children will be released by tomorrow (July 8th) on bail. Of Rs 200,000 per child. The case was presented to Justice Pervez Inayat of Multan high court who asked SP Investigation Sardar Tareen who confirmed that during the investigation no material was found against the children. on which the Court has accepted Bail of all the four children. Alhamdolillah.

We ask for prayers for the children and the people who have helped out in this case ! These innocent children will be free on BAIL after 162 hot days.

Major Afzal Mehmood was born in 1976 in Karachi and he did his F.SC from T.I College (Taleem ul Islam College) Rabwah, And for his Country and People he was fighting with the enemy in FC NWFP from past year. On 19th June 2009 he went on Patrol with his men on Pak-Afghan border but near Bajur they were ambushed the troops returned fire but this brave man achieved Shahadat (Martyrdom) when he was hit by a bullet in the Head.

On 20th June his Body was brought to Rabwah for Burial were he was given Full Army Salute and a Shaheed’s Burial , Pictures and Video Follow…

Major Afzal Shaheed Video Part 2  |  Major Afzal Shaheed Video Part 3

Major Afzal Shaheed Video Part 4  |  Major Afzal Shaheed Video Part 5

Sources told Online Hashim and other accomplice were collecting information on security related arrangements of a key place of worship in respect of a minority group since the last few days.

As per their plan, both of them were to hit the place of worship on Friday during the hour of worship with a truck laden with ammunition and truck was to be loaded with ammunition from Jhang.

Preliminary investigation disclosed that both of the boys belonged to a proscribed outfit, which stands divided, and his mastermind was living in South Waziristan.

Sources further informed the government had tightened security arrangements for the protection of temples, gurdawaras and other places of worship of minorities following the failure of plan aimed at blowing up the place of worship in Rabwah.

There was also a similar conference in Faisalabad, Pakistan where Mullah’s blamed Ahmadis for the Terrorism acts in Pakistan while they themselves are the culprits !

The accused will be brought before a court today. A press release issued on Monday by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) stated that some radical groups had announced a show of strength against Ahmadis to pressurize the court not to grant bail to the five Ahmadis.

The accused were arrested on January 28 on charges of writing blasphemous comments in a mosque toilet. They were shifted to Dera Ghazi Khan Central Jail, where the fundamentalist groups had asked other inmates to ‘fix up’ the Ahmadis, according to the statement. The commission urged the Punjab government to stop the violent campaign.

Source Daily Times

The four accused children are Muhammad Irfan, Tahir Imran, Tahir Mahmood and Naseeb Ahmad.are between 14 and 16.  Mr Mubashar Ahmad, aged 50, has also been arrested under section 295-C.

All five were taken into custody on 28 January 2009 . After four hours in custody each of the accused was charged under the terms of section 295-C on the completely false grounds that they had written the name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) on the walls of a toilet at the Jamia Gulzar-e-Medina Mosque.

Asma Jahangir, the chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), said that it was heinous to use the law against children. The HRCP was finding facts about the incident, she said, and would soon send a team to Layyah while Religious scholar Javed Ghamidi said the children were safer in police custody.

Mr Salim-ud-Din, Spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Pakistan said:

“These allegations are completely false and baseless. The police have no evidence whatsoever and have merely succumbed to the pressure of those who spread religious hatred in the region.”

It is of note that none of the persons arrested have any connection to the Gulzar-e-Medina Mosque and they do not live anywhere near it.

The Asian Human Rights Commission has stated:

“Family members were told (by the District Police Officer) that the police were under pressure from fundamentalists to act against the children. If he did not arrest them, the group had threatened to close down the whole city and attack the houses of Ahmadi sect members… The AHRC urges the government of President Asif Zardari to immediately release the illegally detained prisoners.”

The charge laid against the five Ahmadis is completely without foundation. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat reveres the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the final law bearing prophet, who brought with him a universal teaching. No disrespect towards him could ever be tolerated by any Ahmadi; man, woman or child. The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wrote:

“The man who in his being and his attributes and his actions and through his spiritual and holy faculties set an example of perfection and was called the perfect man was Muhammad (peace be upon him).”

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat urges the immediate release of the five persons imprisoned and for all charges to be dropped. In a country which seeks to promote an image of tolerance to the Western world, it speaks volumes that peace loving children have been charged with an offence that sanctions the death penalty as a sentence.

The International Community, Media and Human Rights organizations are all urged to take action to secure the release of all of the accused in this matter. In an era where freedom of religion and belief is accepted as a basic human right throughout the world it is of disbelief that anti-Ahmadiyya legislation is still active and indeed still being so cruelly enforced in Pakistan.

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Please raise awareness of this issue by writing to your local MP, newspaper editors and authorities in Pakistan.  This is further evidence of how democracy & justice in Pakistan is bowing & succumbing to extremist fundamentalists.  Even the chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has condemned this act.

The announcement was made at a meeting of WAPDA, NESPAK and the Irrigation Department lead by senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad in Chiniot on Thursday. This will produce up to 256 giga watt hours (GWH) of hydropower electricity and it will be able to store water for cultivation of around 26.4 thousand tons of wheat. The water in the dam would have a value of around Rs 2.92 billion and the power generated will have a round about value of Rs 0.92 billion. The project report of Rabwah Dam (Chiniot Dam) is ready to be submitted to the federal government.

It is said that the dam would have a barrage capacity of 1 million cusecs and a storage capacity of 1.29 million acre feet (MAF). The total length of the dykes will be 44 miles with a height of 39 feet. The ‘environment and rehabilitation cost’ of the dam has been estimated at Rs 5.2 billion, but we wonder if they will actually be applied for this purpose ! while Rs 5.1 billion would be spent on setting up a powerhouse.

Irrigation Department experts said Chenab River’s embankments would be reinforced up to Pindi Bhattian for protection against floods.

Source : Chiniot Dam (Rabwah Dam)