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Kunwar Idrees, Karachi
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My Dear Hamid,
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Mian Ehsanul Haq then and Mian Ehsanul Haq now
Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq (Ex-MNA-PPP), Faisalabad
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Dear Hamid,
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When I sat for the final LL.B Examination in the University Law College, Lahore, all students walked out of the examination hall as a protest on something and went on strike. I was the only one who did not take part in strike. Later an enquiry was ordered by the government and I was called as a witness. Justice Mushtaq of Lahore High Court, who presided over the enquiry commission, asked me why I did not join the strikers. I told him frankly that I had graduated from T.I. College Rabwah, and there I had learnt to respect law and not to revolt against authority and I believe this is a good lesson. He was impressed.
I have been active in politics for about forty years. I am one of the founder members of the Pakistan Peoples Party. As a member of the National Assembly from 1970 to 1977, I have roamed through the parlours of power for seven years. I have seen the hypocrisy not only of our political, but also of our religious leadership from too close. I wish they had all studied at T.I. College, Rabwah and leant the basic principles of honesty and integrity.
I wish I could mention all my teachers and classmates by name, but that will make this message too long. If I were to name one teacher and one student, I will name Mian Ata-ur-Rehman, our professor of Physics, and Chaudhry Bashir Ahmad of Sheikhupura (popularly known as Haji in those days), for their virtues which I cannot fully describe in words. Chaudhry Bashir Ahmad, like myself, later joined Pakistan Peoples Party and was elected a member of the provincial assembly (MPA). We remained good friends till he died in an accident.
I wish to tell all my friends that they are lucky to have been at T.I. College. Keep the great traditions of the great institution alive and I mean, honesty, integrity, morality, discipline, and above all tolerance and respect for dissenting views. All these things were summed up in the motto of the college, which was Ilm-o-Amal.
May Allah bless Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad and all the kind teachers who contributed to my consequent success in life. May God bless you all and me and my family. Amen.
Mian Ehsanul Haq (Ex MNA)
Faisalabad
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Bashir Ahmad Rafiq, London
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My dear Hamid Ahmad Chaudhri Sahib
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Justice (Retd.) Mohammad Islam Bhatti, Columbia, MD (USA)
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My Dear Hameed,
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My Alma Mater - yes, what else should I call my T. I. College, other than a BOUNTEOUS MOTHER!?
It is the first time that I happen to write something about so dear, so important and so integral a part of my existence. And, again it was not on account of a motive on my part, but to a phone call from Prof. Hameed Ahmad Choudhry. Choudhry Saheb, as I call him is someone whom I have known from the times when I, a dreamy eyed boy of FOURTEEN, entered Fazl – e – Umar Hostel as a resident student of T. I. College, way back in the year 1955. I cannot boast of any affinity between the two of us during that stay at the hostel. They were different times and the SENIORS especially the likes of CHOUDHRY SAHEB were considered as icons, only to be looked in awe, admiration and respect.
And when in other climes we meet
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My Dear Prof. Chaudhry Hamid Ahmad Sahib,
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It gives me a great pleasure to express my feelings about my Alma Mater and its respected teachers for whom I can not find words to extend my thanks. Who took me from crayon to perfume and taught me right from wrong. I sometimes hum the hindi song” Ko’ee lauta day mairay Beetay ho’wee din”. It took us years to cross the wall which separated Talim ul Islam High School and College. Though, we could get few glimpses from the Boarding House windows opened towards the College and always wished to be in the premises one day wearing a black “gown”.
At last the day came when we were filling in the admission forms to join the first year of the college. It appeared as if all the 10th grades from from all over Pakistan had moved over to this new premises with some exceptions to obtain the best education and discipline.
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Dear Chaudhry Sahib
Nawab Hamid Ahmad Khan with Sahibzada Mirza Hanif Ahmad (Photo provided by Nawab Hamid Ahmad Khan)
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LOVE FOR ALL HATRED FOR NONE
Note: I am very grateful to our friend Hamid Ahmad Khan, who has motivated his younger brother to send his photo and the above note. Mahmood has sent the photograph below to put on record his unforgettable association with PIA. I am sorry for the poor quality of the photo, which is due to my lack of expertise in the field.- Hamid Ahmad Chaudhry
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Ustazi -ul- Mukurrum Chaudhary Sahib
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My Dear Hamid,
Please accept my heartiest congratulations on conceiving this idea and
implementing it. Indeed, it is a feat worth applause.
I have quickly browsed through the website and amazingly, it brought back
some old memories and forgotten names of old friends from yester years. Thanks for putting in this tremendous effort in collecting this data. It is still in its infancy and I am sure that with the time it will get the momentum and reach the desired sumptuousness. Inshaullah, I will be sending you the photos you have asked for, soon. In the mean time, I will also try to get in touch with the old boys of T. I. College, known to me and provide you the contact addresses. Please keep the torch burning. Best regards
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Assalamo alaikum.
I hope that you are fine. The site is absolutely wonderful. I studied in T.I college during my FSc between 1977-78. Now I am working here in Nazarat Taleem, Sadar Anjuman Ahmadiyya.. If possible do add me as well, .and please confirm. Take care and with love and prayers
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It is a matter of great pleasure to know that finally, the "Association of the
T. I. College Old Students" has been formed. Thanks to Professor Chaudhry
Hameed Ahmad Sahib and other friends who worked strenuously to achieve this
goal. The main purpose of this organization is to keep the luminous
traditions and high values of this great institution alive.
I joined T. I. College Rabwah as an F. Sc. student in 1966. Although by that
time Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Khalifa tul Masih III was not the Principal of
the college anymore, nevertheless the high moral, ethical and educational
standards that were achieved during his leadership were still there. Since
the majority of the professors were Waqifin, they did their job with a
missionary spirit that was apparent from the extremely good results that were
achieved every year.
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Develop the habit of hard work, hard work and hard work. Individuals, groups or countries, all advanced in the world only with this habit. This is the key to our progress, nay the progress of the whole mankind. The Promised Messiah, and his five khulafa have been demanding this from us. Ahmadiyyat is the destiny of the world and let us make it happen.
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I joined T. I. College, Rabwah in 1957 half-heartedly on the wish of my parents. Rabwah was then a small dry, dusty lustreless town, devoid of all luxuries of life. I thought life there for a young collegiate will be monotonous. To my surprise, I soon found that life in T. I. College was in no way dull as I had imagined. The college attracted students, not only from all corners of the country, as a matter of fact there were students from other continents as well. Even though Theology was a taught in the college, but there was no compulsion in religion.
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Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahe wa Barakatohu
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Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahe wa Barakatohu
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Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahe wa Barakatohu
PS:
And, we the trifling JUNIORS obliged, ‘religiously‘!!
Syed Ilyas Bashir Ahmad
I do not recall even a small chat between me and CHOUDHRY SAHEB except the customary exchange of salutations whenever we crossed each other’s path. Strange though it may seem, the same CHOUDHRY SAHEB, has proven to be a pillar of strength for me in this latter phase of my dingy and dreary existence in EUROPE. His console’ and counsel always resuscitate and give me a new lease of life. He is, without doubt, a blessing that came my way thru none else but my T. I. College. May Allah keep him and his dear ones under His care and protection always!!
While writing these lines a host of memories crowd my mind and the feelings of nostalgia make me loose my focus. I am carried back to the day when my father took me to RABWAH to lodge me at Fazl - e - Umar Hostel. It was some day of September but the heat was still scorching to the young boy who had just descended from the cool comforts of his home in GILGIT. The monotony all around made me visualize the oft related story of Hazrat Ibrahim ( as ) and his son Hazrat Ismail ( as ) so explicitly. I had heard this story repeatedly from my early childhood from my grandmother, my mother and also my father, yet it had never made such a vivid impression as it did that day; when my father left me at the hostel.
Scribing these words bring back the memory of my first dinner (not the last!? ) in our “mess”. It was sometimes after Asr prayers when a loud shrieking bell followed by a thunderous stampede made me startle and hurriedly follow my three room mates who had jumped out of the room already; in a frenzy. Out of the room and into the corridor, I realized that the stampede was not on account of any impending danger; it was just in an effort to succeed in entering the DINING HALL which could house only a small percentage of the hungry masses.Those who did not succeed in getting in, kept hovering around the entrance in the hope of dashing in at the first available opportunity.
Me and my room mates were among the last of the cavaliers to gloat upon our victory. At first glance I noticed that the room presented a scene out of the battle of PANIPUT.I used the word PANI……PUT only because the “ SO CALLED “ table cloth was soaked in yellowish red watery remnants ( PANI ) of some sort; and littered ( PUT ) with remains of unedibles. I had hardly regained my composure when someone put a plate full of a watery concoction in front of me and almost threw a ROTI beside. My neighbour’s concentration on his plate made me also to refocus. It required a deep probe to find out what lay beneath. To my horror, I only found a few “fully matured“BHINDIS and a crooked MEATLESS bone swimming lifelessly in that pool of water. God’ how I had hated BHINDIS till that stage in my life (even the delicious home cooked ones). Suddenly words of my father started resounding in my ears. I remembered that whenever I told my mother of my plans to go to GOVERNMENT COLLEGE, LAHORE, etc., etc., my father would pronounce authoritatively that it was only T.I.College where headstrong young men could be reformed. No doubt, the reformation process had started already!!
Some orthodox souls may find the preceding narration less palatable; but my portrayal would appear lopsided if I did not give the readers a peep into the uninhibited mind of a young boy whose image of a College Campus did not match this ground reality at all.
Now, that I look in retrospect, my feelings are different altogether. I feel a deep yearning for the days that have long gone past and buried under the debris of time; leaving behind sweet pangs of nostalgia only. I cannot move back the clock, but I still retain the treasures that those passing moments gave me and all those cherished moments date back to my sojourn in My Alma Mater, My T.I.College.
I remember those innocent friendships that I made there. I remember Mohammad Bux, my room mate, a non Ahmadi student from a nearby village and one of the most innocent souls on this earth. How can I forget my other room mates Munir, Salim and Lateef Ahmed zafar ( son of late hazrat Mohammad Ahmed Mazhar Saheb ).
My Alma Mater gave me the valued patronage of Prof.Choudhry Mohammad Ali Saheb, and I can still feel the warmth of the PAN DRENCHED smile of Junaid Hashmi Saheb, that filtererd exuberantly through his horn rimmed glasses. I still remember how he would guide me on the right time ( depending upon the right mood of Mian Saheb ) of submitting an application to ( the then ) Mian Nasir Ahmed , our principal, to remit a fine imposed on me for some innocent breach of discipline The list of my benefactors is so long that I have to restrict the description for fear of short “ MEMORY “ of this website.
I would be ungrateful if I did not mention of the care and indulgence that I received from SHADI, BASHIR, HASSAN DIN and CEYLONI in addition to affectionate reprimands from Maulana Arjumand Khan Saheb. May allah be pleased with them all.
Going down the memory lane I still remember the occasion when at an ANNUAL DINNER of Fazl-e-Umar Hostel, Hazrat Mian Bashir Ahmed ( ra ) was our Chief Guest and I as the Chief Prefect, was assigned to deliver the WELCOME address. It was only the kind guidance of Choudhry Mohammad Ali Saheb that made me over come the butter flies in my stomach and handle the occasion .
The moments are still fresh in my memory when Choudhry Saheb introduced me to Hazrat Mian Saheb ( ra ) and another “ young and handsome person “ who accompanied Hazrat Mian Saheb. This “young and handsome person “ with a magnetic personality was none other than our dear HAZRAT MIRZA TAHIR AHMED AHMED ( rt ). It was another blessing accorded to me by my ALMA MATER and an association that lasted all through.
I cannot count my blessings which came my way thru my T.I.College. It was this brief period that afforded me several MULAQATs with Hazrat Musleh-e-Moud and , with all living SAHABA of Hazrat Masih-e-Moud( as ).It was my T.I.College that gave me the blessings of closeness and personal close contact with TWO KHULAFA of AHMADIYYAT i.e., HAZRAT MIRZA NASIR AHMED ( rt )(He was not only my Principal but also my teacher of POLITICAL SCIENCE ) and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmed ( rt )
I can sum up my T.I.College experience by saying that my mother ( May Allah be pleased with her ) brought me to this world but my ALMA MATER nurtured me to live up to the realities of this world and the world hereafter.
I would end this note by quoting TWO stanzas from a poem by Thomas Moore which truly depict my frame of mind, while writing these lines:
We talk with joyous seeming –
With smiles that might as well be tears,
So faint, so sad their beaming;
While memory brings us back again
Each early tie that twined us,
O, sweet’s the cup that circles then
To those we’ve left behind us!
Some isle or vale enchanting,
Where all looks flowery, wild, and sweet,
And nought but love is wanting;
We think how great had been our bliss
If Heaven had but assign’d us
To live and die in scenes like this,
With some we’ve left behind us!
Letter of our Habib Ullah Tariq
Habib Ullah Tariq / Germany
The college has produced several heroes in all walks of life, and the website provides a glimpse of the fact. I assure you my full support and hope many others like me will love to provide you the assistance you need. May Allah bless you for that. After having matriculated from T. I. High School, I joined T. I. College in 1970 and participated in most of the extra-curricular activities of the college. I was an active member of the Students Union and held several offices in the Union and Bazam-e-Urdu. I represented the college in many All Pakistan Inter-collegiate Debates and wron trophies for the college. I was also President of the College Economics society from 1974-75. I was a member of the college Rowing team that won the Punjab University Championship in 1974. In 1976 I migrated to Germany, where I am comfortably settled and am running my own business. Alhamdo Lillah.
Habib Ullah Tariq
May Allah grant you a long life of health and peace of mind. It was a long standing desire that a platform should be provided, where the old students and teachers could somehow reunite together. This was not an easy task. Years passed by, but this desire remained unfulfilled. Thanks to your efforts, that dream has been realised. May Allah bless your efforts and enable you to carry this difficult task further forward. I hope all of us shall give you full support in this noble work.
Formation of the T.I. College Old Students Association is a historic event, like the founding of the college itself in 1944. I have seen the website and found it extremely interesting and inspiring.
Habib Ullah Tariq
Segeberger Str. 42, 23845 Itzstedt, Germany
Tel: 04535-8515
Message from Mirza Mahmood Ahmad, Frankfurt/Germany
Mirza Mahmood Ahmad / Frankfurt
There was no “ First Year Fooling” like in most of the other colleges, but a warm welcome from seniors. Although the building itself wasn’t all that grandiose and spectacular but inside, we had the best teachers who in spite of all financial constrains did their utmost to maintain a standard which was a peculiarity of the college and a matter of pride for parents and students. This esteemed institution produced intellectuals who attained key posts and ranks in civil and judicial services of the country as well as in Armed forces of Pakistan.
Mirza Mahmood Ahmad
Even in games like Basketball and Rowing College kept a name for years not only at college level but at University level also.
4 years went like a wind, and we were out of the premises again with tears in our eyes, For which we dreamed for years. But the slogan “ Ilm-o-Aml” remained with us and will be our integral part till our last breath. I owe a lot to this institution. I salute all the members of Talim-ul-Islam College. HATS OFF FOR Talim-ul-Islam College.
I wish all the best for the hardworking team behind this website.
Mahmood A. MIRZA ( Frankfurt, Germany)
Message from Nawabzada Hamid Ahmad Khan
Hamid Ahmad Khan, Leesburg, VA
I joined T. I. College Lahore in 1952 as pre-medical student for two years but could not continue in the field due to lack of interest. I rejoined the college at Rabwah in 1954 as a student of economics and graduated in 1958. For 6 years I helped my father on his land in Sargodha. Then in 1964 I joined National Bank of Pakistan where I was Manager of its Gulberg Branch Lahore until 1965. Then I was selected for foreign Exchange training by the United California Bank, Los Angeles for one year. Upon completion of the training I served the Foreign Department for a brief period at the Head Office in Karachi. I was transferred to Hong Kong in 1971 and then to New York, Chicago and Bahamas where I was Manager of Nassau Bahamas Branch. I resigned from NBP in 1979 to join The Fuji Bank of Japan as its Operations Manager at its Chicago Branch. After three years of serving the Japanese Bank I was hired by BCCI at its American Operation to head its International Trade Finance Area at Miami to supervise its operation in Miami, Caribbean and Latin America. I was an unfortunate victim of its demise in 1990 when this great bank was forced to close down globally.
Hamid Ahmad Khan
Assalam o alaikum
My name is Hamid Ahmad Khan and I am an ex-student of Taleem ul Islam College, Lahore and later Rabwah. I am older brother of Mahmood Ahmad Khan whom you have mentioned as pilot. Mahmood as popularly known as Captain M. A. Khan who retired as Chief Pilot after a distinguished service in PIA covering over four decades. He now lives in Karachi and is a successful agriculturist in Sind as well as Punjab. His e-mail address is duee42@hotmail.com .
Since then I have been more or less retired and pursue my passion for travel and photography.
The addresses of Sahibzadgan which you have sought is very simple. Just write the name of the Sahibzada Sahib then Mohallah Darul Sadar then Chenabnagar (Rabwah), Pakistan. For instance the address of Sahibzada Mirza Hanif Ahmad Sahib would be:
Sahibzada Mirza Hanif Ahmad
Mohallah Darul Sadar
Chenabnagar (Rabwah)
Pakistan.
Other Sahibzadgan should be addressed similarly and the correspondence will reach them positively.
I have fondest memories of the college. Its loss has saddened me and hurt the new generation profoundly. The college provided a fantastic crop of great leaders for the Jama'at. I look around and see its old students serving in the true tradition of Ahmadiyyat all over the world. I was reading an article on the Internet written by an enemy of Jama'at who rejoiced that by loosing the college Ahmadiyyat has lost the institution which produced its core leadership. He said that we were happy when this great instrument of power was taken away from Ahmadiyyat through Nationalization. But we were always fearful that this dynamic Jama'at will soon reconstruct their vital organization. However to our joy and surprise the leadership after its second Khalifa lacked the farsightedness and never rebuilt its college. The author, mistakenly concluded that now it was just a matter of time when all the old students of Rabwah College would be dead and then the Jama'at will have no true leadership on the patron of its original culture which was the back bone of its success.
No people have ever commanded respect and power without knowledge, culture and higher education. The example of 'Jews is most vivid. We are still a young community. We can loose our identity in the sea of hostile cultures if we do not rebuild T. I. Colleges or similar institutions. We can build a better college with far bigger role to play in the future to shape and ensure continued growth of the original Jama'at of Hazrat e Aqdas (as).
Congratulations on your great effort. I was moved by the messages of Kanwar Idrees who was my senior and then my professor of economics and also that of Imam Bashir Rafiq whom I remember so well and also of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali my favorite teacher and mentor. May Allah bless them with long productive life and when the time come may God accept us all in His Forgiveness and Mercy and keep us in His loving care. May Allah bless the soul of Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad Khalifatul Masih III and others who have parted us in time.
Wassalam
Hamid Ahmad Khan
P. O. Box 1108
Leesburg, VA 20176
(615) 403-4467
Message from Captain M.A. Khan
Son of Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan
Capt. Mahmood Ahmad Khan, Karachi
When CAA Pakistan (Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan) established flight inspectorate I was the first one to be appointed as their Flight Inspector on Air buss A300 aircraft, I was latter appointed as CAA flight inspector on Boeing 747 aircraft upon my promotion on that equipment. I have been in the management as Chief Pilot Planning Scheduling & Coordination for almost seven and a half years, the longest period any pilot in PIA has ever been on a management post. I retired as a Boeing 747 captain on Dec.16 2002.
Capt. M. A. Khan
Unfortunately I could not continue at T. I. College for the completion my Fsc as I had to shift to Lahore for my Flying training with Lahore flying School (Club).
I appeared privately for my Fsc.
I qualified as commercial pilot and obtained the Commercial Pilot’s license in 1967 from Lahore flying club Flying School and was taken in PIA same year.
In PIA in the nitial trainig phase I qualified and obtained ATP license (Airline transport pilot rating)
Although I was never a bright student at college but my performance on the professional side has always been outstanding. During my 35 years of service in Pakistan International Airlines as a pilot I have always been utilized as an instructor pilot.
If required I may send some of my pictures taken on and after my last flight in PIA.
With this mail two pictures are being attached herewith.
1. My picture
2. The picture with Boeing 747 has a caption “this is the aircraft I fly” this Post Card was made when I was still in service.
Best regards,
Captain M.A.Khan (Rtd)
Mahmood Ahmed Khan S/O Nawab Muhammad Ahmed Khan
Karachi Pakistan
Duee42@hotmail.com
Message from Dr. Muzaffar Ahmad Khan, Karachi
Dr. M. A. Khan, Karachi
In 1971 I graduated from TIC and then obtained Master's degree in Botany
from Punjab University in 1973 . Later I served for a period of three
years in Nusrat Jehan Scheme in Sierra Leone. I returned home in 1981
after accomplishing doctrate from the Queen's University Belfast. I was
advised by Hazarat Khalifa tul Messih lll to look for a professional
career in Pakistan and so far God has been very kind and helped me adhere
to the advice of Hazur.
Dr. Muzaffar Ahmad Khan
It is very kind of you to advise me to cotribute to the TIC website. As
an alumni of TIC, I feel indebted to you and your colleagues for providing
us this wonderful forum to cherish our sweet memories associated with the
charismatic environment of TIC campus.
For me,TIC website has revived memories that had gotten blurred in wake of
last 35 years. I have again come to know the whereabouts of many old
friends and teachers and how they have progressed in their lives. I was
indeed glad to know about Dr Muhammed Sharif Khan who taught me the basics
of the life sciences.
I consider my self as a humble product of TIC and still live with this
strong conviction, that the kind of education and mentors that we had at
TIC is hardly to be surpassed by any comparable institute. It is because of
their dedication that many of us are what we are today, and my deepest
gratitude goes out to them.
I have served Pakistan Agriculture Research Council in various capacities
for almost 12 years (1982-1993). Since 1993 I have been associated with
Engro Chemical Pakistan Ltd., which is a leading company in Pakistan's
corporate set up.
I am accessible on e-mail and telephone, details of which are given below.
Chuadhary sahib we pray Allah may bless you with good and innovative
ideas to make TIC Alumni Association a very puposeful forum.
With best regards,
Muzaffer A. Khan
Tel: Office +92 21 5611060 -9 Direct line 5610293 .
Residence 585 72 98 &
5857702 Mobile +92 300 8275041
Email :makhan@engro.com
Jamil M. Chaudhry - Bank of America U. S. A.
Jamil M. Choudhry
5-Barbour Pl. Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
E-Mail: jamilmc@usa.mashreqbank.com
Phone: Res: 732-271-9558
Off: 212-824-2844
Mail from Syed Tahir Ahmad, Nazir Taleem, Rabwah
SYED TAHIR AHMAD
NAZARAT TALEEM, SADAR ANJUMAN AHMADIYYA,RABWAH- 35460
TELEPHONE: 047-6212473
EMAIL; ntaleem@fsd.paknet.com.pk
Malik Lal Khan, Engineer, Amir Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya, Canada
Malik Lal Khan, Toronto
Later, when possible, I shall send you whatever is available. In the next few days, I shall forward you a recent photograph. The two years I spent in T.I. College Rabwah (1960-62) are the best years of my life. Not only did I receive secular education, but also religious and spiritual education which resulted in my acceptance of Ahmadiyyat, the True Islam. Al-Hamdu lillah! The most vivid of my memories of T.I. College is the love and affection I received from my teachers. They used to treat us as their own children. Later, in Lahore and other places, I did meet some very good teachers. But the sort of caring teacher-student relationship I experienced at TI College
remained unique. I am very happy that TI COSA will provide us the facility of enjoying pleasant memories of our stay at our beloved institution. May Allah bless your efforts and reward you and the other organisers for this excellent timely service! I just remembered a joke. Chaudhary Sharif Khalid Sahib used to teach us English. He had a habit of always saying "No, never" in stead of just saying "no". One day a student addressed me as "Red Khan". Chaudhary Sahib overheard him. He smiled for a while, enjoying the joke. Then he turned to me and said, "Lal Khan, do you like to be called Red Khan?" I stood up and just said,"No, never!"
Malik Lal Khan
Assalamo alaikum wa Rahmatullah!
It is a great pleasure knowing about revival of TI COSA and the website. I did receive your messages through Majeed Ahmad Saeed Sahib and Zakaria Virk Sahib. The delay in my response was due to some other urgent matters to be attended. Thank you very much for remembering your old students. I am passing on your message to Karim Ahmad Sahib Tahir also. I do not have photographs of that period with me here in Canada.
Message from Dr. Naeem Ahmad Tahir
Member Executive Committee, TICOSA
Dr. N. A. Tahir, Darmstadt / Germany
One always felt a family like atmosphere in the college
because the teachers were caring and generous, always ready to support the
students whenever they required help. At that time Professor Qazi Mohammad
Aslam Sahib was the principal. Some other names that I remember are Professor
Chaudhri Mohammad Ali, Professor Naseer Ahmad Khan, Professor Sultan Mahmood
Shahid, Professor Mian Ata ur Rehman, Professor Chaudhri Hameed Ullah,
Professor Chaudhri Hameed Ahmad, Professor Abdur Rashid Ghani, Professor
Mirza Khurshid Ahmad, Professor Basharat ur Rehman and Professor Masud Atif.
Dr. N. A. Tahir
In 1970 the T. I. College, Rabwah was granted permission by the University of
Punjab to offer M. Sc. degree in Physics which was a great step forward in
the history of the college. It was the tireless and sincere efforts of the
late Professor Naseer Ahmad Khan under the auspices of Hazrat Khalifa tul
Massih III that made such an important thing to happen.
I obtained a B. Sc. degree from the T. I. College in 1970 and was interested
in doing an M. Sc. in Physics. In those days, the University of Punjab
Lahore and the Government College Lahore were popular places for doing a
Masters Degree as they were well established institutions with good
reputation. On the other hand, at the T. I. College, this facility was only
one year old. However, due to the excellent experience I had during my four
year stay, I decided to join M. Sc. Physics courses at T. I. College, Rabwah.
This opened a new chapter in my life. Although over thirty years have passed
since I finished my studies at T. I. College, I still cherish the sweet
memories of those days. During my professional life I have had the chance to
work at numerous very good universities and excellent research centers all
over the world which helped me to improve my worldly knowledge tremendously.
However, nowhere in the world I could find the high moral and ethical
standards that I experienced at the T. I. College, Rabwah.
Professor Naseer Ahmad Khan who was the Head of the Physics Department, took
personal care for the wellbeing of every student and did everything possible
to provide the students with all the necessary means and facilities to
achieve success. His aim was twofold. First to encourage the students to show
excellent performance in M. Sc. exams and do better than students at other
institutions and second to prepare them for higher education abroad after
they finish the Masters. Until the college was taken over by the Government
of Pakistan, the students from the T. I. College always showed excellent
performance compared to the University of Punjab and the Government College
Lahore. Most of those students later obtained higher education abroad and now
have responsible positions in different European Countries and the United
States.
I would also like to acknowledge the support and generosity of the late
Professors Mian Ata ur Rehman and Masud Atif who were very kind and helpful
to all the students. Late Professor Dr. Abdus Salam also visited the college
a number of times and in his speeches he always urged the audience to excel
in different fields of science and technology. His advice and encouragement
was instrumental in shaping the future of many of the students. Finally, I
would like to mention that all the success that was achieved during those
years was made possible due to the full support, guidance and prayers of
Hazrat Khalifa tul Massih III.
wassalam
Naeem A. Tahir
Message from Ata-ur-Raheem Hamad (U.S.A)
Ata-ur-Raheem Hamid
Before the introduction of this new game T.I.College had earned a great name in inter-collegiate bumping boating race on river Ravi at Lahore.Our college participated in the Punjab University inter-collegiate basketball championship for the first time. For the first year our college lost in the very first match and in the second year too we could not win more than one match. Professor Naseer Ahmed Khan [late] was the president of basketball. He was a man of great determination. When our team lost in the second year, he encouraged and advised us to practice hard and make sure that we win next year. After we reached our college we were a vigorous exercise and training every morning and evening. It was really a landmark in the history of college when our basketball team won in the Punjab University inter-collegiate championship. By the Grace of Allah we were able to defeat the old Christian colleges i.e.F.C.college Lahore, Gordon College Rawalpindi, Murray College Sialkot etc.Alhamdolillah.
Ata-ur-Raheem Hamad
Assalamo Alaikum
I was very much pleased to see the Website for aTalim-ul-Islam College oldboys. I read wonderful messages of old friends. I graduated in 1963. I was not a good student academically but I participated in athletics and sports. I won 4000 meters cycle race in 1962 in the college annual sports. From 1957 to 1959 I was the member of college cricket team under the presidentship of Sahibzada Mirza Khurshid Aahmed Sahib and Mirza Ghulam Ahmed was the captain of the team. Nawab Shahid Ahmed Khan Pasha used to be the secretary of our team.
Perhaps it was the year 1960 or 1961 when basketball was introduced in our college and later on in Rabwah.
Please convey my hearty salutations to all my friends and old boys of the college and also remember me in your prayers.Thank you.
Yours Sinncerely,
Ata-ur-Raheem
Message from Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad (Frankfurt) - Mmeber Executive Committe, TICOSA
Message from Chaudhry Adul Majeed Tahir (Neue Isenburg)
Message from Dr. Safee Chaudhry, United States of America
Assalamo-Alaikum
Fellow Alumni
It is a great pleasure to learn that some of the alumni and former professors of Talim-ul-Islam College-Rabwah have gathered in Germany and formed an alumni association. This is admirable and encouraging news for all of the people who have had any involvement with this esteemed institution of higher learning. I am certain that we all have some fond memories of our time spent there and this forum is intended to be a means by which we can all share them. We will soon be collecting the contact information from all of the alumni and past professors who currently reside in the United States and Canada. I will be serving as the Vice President of the North American chapter and will be asking for your assistance and cooperation in contacting all of these individuals. I hope that this group, which is supported by our beloved Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih, will grow by leaps and bounds in terms of both membership and activities, Inshallah.
Message from Hassan Mohammad Khan Arif (Canada)
Hassan Mohammad Arif (Canada)
Hassan Mohammad Khan
(Mr. Arif is now 85 years old, has served the Jamaat as Naib-Wakeeluttabshir. He has sent us a detailed account of his life, which we intend to put on the website later.)
Message from Khaliq Akhtar Basra (Germany)
Khaliq Akhtar Basra (Germany)
Almost half of the students did not come from the Ahmadiyya Community, but there was an atmosphere of complete harmony. The College maintained the highest standards not only in academic field, but the extra-curricular activities were never ignored. In the field of sports, it was not behind any institution of the University of the Panjab, with which it was affiliated. Under the inspiring leadership of its charismatic principal Hazrat Sahibzada Mirza Nasir Ahmad, it became of premier institution of the country within a few years after its inception. The college can take legitimate pride on having produced people like Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V and innumerable great men who have served and many are still serving the community and the nation. They include civil and military personalites, devotees and missionaries.
In the field of sports, the college has produced great Basketballers like Major Saadi and Aizaz Rasool and many others whose names will not be forgotten by Basketball fans in Pakistan. The college remained an unchallenged champion of Rowing in the University and Board tournaments for several years, until the government took it over under its nationalisation policy.
Khaliq Akhtar Basra
Message from Laiq Ahmad, Australia
Laiq Ahmad, Australia
Laiq Ahmad
Please find attached two photos. The old photo was taken in Rabwah when I was a TI College student. I joined TI College in 1967 and left in 1971. I arrived in New Zealand in 1976 and came to Australia in 1979. I was the first TI College student to have lived in New Zealand and Australia. I completed my education in Australia and have been working for the Australain government for a long time.
Australia is a huge country and it is rather difficult to know every one. This website is a great link to bring old students together.
God bless you for your efforts.
Laiq Ahmad
Email: laiq2@hotmail.com
Another letter from Laiq Ahmad Sahib:
Von: Laiq Ahmad
Dear Chaudhry Sahib
Assalam aliakum
Browsing through the old student site I spotted an old friend in the USA.
We were close friends in Rabwah. Would it be possible to get in touch with
Maudood Ahmad Qudsi ?
Please add my email address to my profile as it is convenient for others
to contact me.
Regards
Laiq Ahmad
Email: laiq2@hotmail.com
Message from Dr. Mohammad Aslam Nasir Australia
Dr. Mohammad Aslam Nasir, Australia
My brief intro is:
Born and breed in Rabwah on the Khilafat Day (27 May 1953) in Sadr Anjuman
quarters. Studied in Rabwah (195X - 1974), QAU Islamabad (1975-77), and
Otago Univ. Dunedin NZ (1982-84).
Dr. Mohammad Aslam Nasir
I wish and pray that may Almighty Allah keeps all of you in the best of
health and showers His unlimited blessings upon all of you. Amen.
Yesterday, when I was net-searching for Rabwah, I found T. I. College site
with a lot of historical photos. As I have also been an old student of the
college, I thought I should also add some to it as well.
I am sending an old phtograph which I received last December from an old
friend in Qadian, together with my recent photograph. The old photograph was
taken in Ghana in 1981. In this, our present Imam (atba) is also standing
and I am standing on his right. (Note: This photo is being placed on the chapter for students serving in Africa- Hamid)
Worked in Pakistan (1978), Ghana (1979-1982), New Zealand (1982-86),
Kenya (1986-87), Australia (1987- ), Fiji (1991-92), Malaysia (1994-95),
USA (1996-99), and Australia (1999-todate); mainly as a teacher, lecturer,
and IT Consultant.
Have travelled extensively across West, East, South Africa, Western Europe,
North America, Asia, and Pacific-Australasia.
With kind regards,
Jazakomullah
Wassalam
Dr. Muhammad Aslam NASIR
Phone: +61-7-3297 0157, Mobile:+61-432-685 779
Email: aslam_nasir@hotmail.com
Letter from Dr. Amjad Tariq, Sidney, Australia
Amjad Tariq, Sidney, Australia
Dr. Amjad Tariq
Congratulation for setting up website about TI College Rabwah. Well Done.
I thoroughly enjoyed browsing and learnt a lot. May Allah give the best
of rewards all those who are involved.
Someone mentioned that there is a message from Laeeq Ahmad who is in Sydney
in 1979. If you give me his right name then I will dig him up in Sydney.
Wassalam,
Dr Amjad Tariq
Sydney, Australia
Letter from Brigadier Mohammad Latif, Islamabad, Pakistan
Brigadier Mohammad Latif, Islamabad
I used to be rather regularly present in meetings of Bazm-e-Adab and Mushairas (amongst the audience) and of course, at the tuck shop, mostly in the small Staff Room next to the kitchen, either waiting for or in the august presence of my BELOVED Dr Pervaiz Parwazi.
Brigadir Mohammad Latif
I am one of your, maybe, little known students of T I College, Rabwah.
I came to know about TICOSA a few days back from Al-Fazal and immediately opened the web site. Since then I have been reading through the site and what a pleasure ! Thank you so much for this most wonderful idea.
I joined The College and Fazal-e-Umar Hostel in 1963.Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad Sahib was the Principal at that time.Needless to say that his personality was simply aw-inspiring. It was always a treat to even look at his god-like face and of course to listen to his speeches delivered in his soft but commanding voice. Later when he became Khalifa-tul-Masih, another renowned personality became our principal and he was Professor Qazi Muhammad Aslam Sahib.I was a science student but the science faculty and students would hardly remember me because I was to be rarely found in the corridors of Science Block.
I somehow managed to do my B.Sc in 1968. During my years at the college I had the honour of being on the editorial board of urdu section of AL-Manar under the guidance of Mohtaram Professor Mahboob Alam Khalid Sahib ( senior student editor , I think, was Hadi sahib). In the hostel, I was Chief Prefect during 1967-68.
Immediately on leaving the college I joined Pakistan Army in March 1969.( Qazi Sahib did not like the idea of my joining the Army, because he always considered me suitable for Civil Service." But, sir, for that, who would do M.A for me?", I humbly asked Qazi Sahib and he smiled).
I was commissioned in Artillery and spent the next 32 and a half gruelling but most memorable years in a lifestyle which I tremendously value and cherish. I retired as a Brigadier in Sep 2001 and am settled in Rawalpindi. My family details are as under:-
* Daughter, Saima. She did her MBBS from King Edwards Medical College, Lahore. She is married to Dr Major Imran Ashraf, who is presently posted at Combined Military Hospital, Pannu Aqil. They have three children( a son and two daughters).
* Son, Shahzad. He did BE (civil) from University of Engg and Tech. Lahore and then Masters in Computer Engg from USA and is presently serving in a software company in New Jersey, USA. He is married and has a son.
* Daughter, Sadia. She is a dentist from Baqai University Karachi. Is married to Athar Luqman Ahmad who is a Masters in Computer engg from USA and is serving as a senior hardware engr in a Computer firm in Seatle, USA. They have two children, a daughter and a son.
* Daughter, Aiza. She did BE in Computer Software from FFIMCS (an Army institution) in Rawalpindi. She is married to Danayal Zia who is a graduate of LUMS Lahore and is presently serving in Standardchartered Bank and is posted at Karachi.
* Son, Shujah. He did his Masters in International Marketing Management from New London University England and is presently working in UNO at Islamabad, Pakistan. He is not married yet ( and is anxiously waiting for his mother to come back from her rather prolonged trip of USA and DO THE NEEDFUL ON URGENT BASIS.)
My phone No is 092-51-5574327 and 092-300-8543419(mobile).
Thanks a lot once again.
Latif.
I also know some of the old students who were in the Army, though I am not in contact with all of them. They are, Col Basharat Ahmad Sethi (in Sharja with his son), Col Naseem Ahmad Saifi ( in Rawalpindi), Col Ejaz Ahmad Tanvir (in Rawalpindi ), Col Asaf Jamil (in Rawalpindi), Major Azmat Malik (in Rawalpindi), Col Intesar Ahmad (probably in Lahore), Major Nasrullah Nasir ( died of cancer two years back----Family is in Islamabad), Major Ibnul Islam (died of cancer three years back---Family is in Rawalpindi) and Wing Commander Tariq Pervaiz from PAF (in Fizaia Colony, Rawalpindi).
I know DIG Tahir Arif very well but I haven't met him since he got busy with his National Defence Course. I shall try to meet him soon and convey your message.
I will find whatever photos I have and send them across.Meanwhile, I have an old photo of college times( or perhaps immediately after college time ie, early Army life) which I shall try to attach here.