BAHAWALPUR:
Scores of people organised a rally at the Fawara Chowk here on Thursday to celebrate court orders to change the chowk’s name to Tahaffuz-i-Khatm-i-Nabuwat Chowk.
The ruling was given by Judge Sardar Shameem Khan of Lahore High Court on December 31. International Khatm-i-Nabuwat’s Haji Muhammad Shafi, Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam’s Shafqatur Rehman, and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat’s Rao Muhammad Javed Iqbal addressed the rally.
The speakers said that hundreds of resolutions had been passed by the citizens seeking the renaming. They said the place had been landmark during the anti-Ahmadi movement in early 1930s started by the Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam, founded in 1930. The speakers lauded the judge for the decision.
They demanded that the government immediately issue a notification recognising the renaming. The ruling came on a petition filed by a citizen, Muhammad Ishfaq.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2014.
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