Muzaffar Ahmad, the first civilian Pakistani, who caught the
suicide bomber alive!
“Aitzaz Hassan, 15, a student in Hangu district
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has become a national hero after tackling the
bomber who came to attack his school on Monday, with hundreds of students
inside.”
“The office of Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif
said it had advised president Mamnoon Hussain "to approve the conferment
of Sitara-e-Shujjat (star of bravery) to Shaheed (martyred) Aitzaz Hassan.”
I salute you Aitzaz, your courage is a role
model for Pakistani teenagers and should be honored in the best manner.
Aitzaz Shaheed’s bravery reminds us about all
those who showed extraordinary courage in worst case scenarios.
Muzaffar Ahmad is one of them, who caught the
suicide bomber and handed over him to police and saved a lot of human lives in
Lahore attacks on May 28, 2010.
It is said, that Muzaffar Ahmad is the first
civilian Pakistani, who caught the suicide bomber alive without any use of
weapon and handed over to the police.
Ahmadiyya community knows Muzaffar Ahmed very
well but Most of the Pakistanis donot know much about him, why?
Answer is not very difficult.
You might have figured out the answer already
or you would figure it out at the end of this article.
Muzaffar Ahmad was survived in the attacks by terrorists while
Ahmadis gathered for Friday prayers in two Ahmadiyya mosques in Garhi Shahu and
Model Town, Lahore Pakistan.
Total 86 were martyred and 124 injured during these terrorist’s
attacks.
Let us read Muzaffar’s story in his own words:
“My name is Muzaffar Ahmad. I am originally
from Lahore, Pakistan”
“ The terrorist opened the door. The
distance between me and him was no more than 7-9 feet. As he opened
fire I positioned myself behind the pillar as to avoid the spray of
bullets. One whistled past me scratching the surface of my body. Blood
started pouring from the wound. Noticing the fact that I was injured, the
terrorist now turned his attention to the others in the hall. Seizing the
opportunity I gathered my strength and charged at the terrorist, managing to
grab his neck with one hand and the barrel of the gun with the other, which
prevented him firing on anyone else. Due to the constant firing the barrel
of the gun was scolding hot and burnt my hand. Despite this I managed to
pin the terrorist to the ground and snatched his gun from him. However, the
threat was not yet over as he now turned his attention to his suicide jacket.
He was struggling to free his right hand in order to blow himself up. Had
this happened it would have had devastating effect. In the meantime other
Khuddam arrived to help and tied down the terrorist.”
Many time questions with ‘Why?”, as mentioned above, are also
raised for many other personalities like Chaudry Zafrullah Khan and Dr Abdus
Salam.
Why Dr Abdus Salam is not mentioned in Pakistani media even though
he got Nobel Prize for Pakistan?
Why Chaudry Zafrullah Khan, first foreign minister of Pakistan,
judge of international court of Justice and president of UN general Assembly,
is not mentioned in Pakistani media?
Answer to each of the above mentioned “why?” is very simple: He is
Ahmadi, Qadiani or Mirzai.
Muzaffar was also lucky as well in one way, that he was not
arrested for posing as Muslim.
Muzaffar was in the mosque to offer Juma prayer.
Suicide bomber could file case against Muzaffar that he was in
mosque for Friday prayers and was posing as Muslim.
Ahmadis are not allowed to pose as Muslims by any way as per
ordinance XX of Pakistan.
Many cases has been filed against Ahmadis for practicing as
Muslims and using Islamic terminologies.
Ahmadis were arrested for saying Kalima, saying Assalamo Alikum,
writing Bismillah and posing as Muslim by many other ways.
Recently, a 72 year old Ahmadi, Masood Ahmad was arrested in
Pakistan for the crime of “Posing as Muslim”, when he recited Quranic verse and
recorded by someone on cell phone as an evidence for the crime.
Let us consider another scenario, a terrorist comes and attacks
Ahmadis while they are offering Namaz (prayer) or reciting Quran or doing other
Islamic activities.
If some Ahmadi catches that terrorist, and hands over to the
police, that terrorist can file a case against Ahmadis for the crime of
offering prayer, reciting Quran and Posing as Muslims.
So Muzaafar Ahmad was not only survived in that attack but also
luckily saved from the criminal case of posing as Muslim.
Ay Muzaffar, tujh perr
Salam (Salute to You, Muzaffar!): You are lucky as well as brave Pakistani
Ahmadi Ghazi! in many ways and someone still remembers you.
Great article. You could also dig out statement of then Interior minister who acknowledged Muzzafar sahib's bravery.
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