Re: Edhi Hospital at Hub
That is so sad. I was wondering about it after reading about it on this report from 1997 on Pakistanspace: "Edhi besieged
December 23 Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi holds a press conference to protest against the illegal occupation of 200-bed hospital by the religious students of a madrassah with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam backing. The hospital was completed with some 25 million rupees from the Edhi Trsut, but the students from the adjacent madrassah, armed with firearms, attacked it just a day before inauguration and forcefully occupied it. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the JUI chief visited his students eight days after the occupation to commend them on the break-in and brand Maulana Edhi as a kafir. The authorities haven’t taken any notice of the situation so far."
and this report
"The level of extremism has become a matter of concern as people from all walks of life are affected. People are increasingly alarmed over incidents like the occupation of a newly built hospital to be run by well known social worker, Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi in Karachi in December 1997, by religious students from a madrassa run by Maulana Fazlur Rehman's JUI. Just eight days after the incident, Maulana Fazlur Rehman went there and made a speech against Edhi, calling him an infidel and defending the action of his students by calling it a holy war against Edhi. "
Ajju, pls provide a link to ur news stories. thanx.