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 Prof.
Dr. Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha was born on
28th February 1945, at Dadar, District
Mansehra, in the North West Frontier Province of
Pakistan. His grandfather, Hazrat Maulvi Muhammad
Yahya Sahib, named him Abdul Karim.
Hazrat
Syed Asadullah Shah Sahib,
who was very close to the family, lovingly called
him "Pasha" when he was still a child. He is today
more commonly known by that name in the
Jamaat [Movement].
Prof. Dr. Pasha attended Burn
Hall School in Abbottabad, and Forman Christian
College in Lahore before joining medical school. He
graduated as a doctor from King Edward Medical
College Lahore in 1968. Prof. Dr. Pasha was
inclined towards religion from early childhood. He
benefited a lot from the Dars-i-Quran and
Hadith [discourses on the Holy Quran and
Hadith] and readings from the books of Hazrat
Masih-i-Maoud [Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib
of Qadian] that his father, the late
Hazrat
Ameer Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan,
conducted almost on a daily basis. He was also very
much influenced by lectures and Dars-i-Quran
by the late Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi Sahib,
Naseer
Ahmad Farooqi and
Hafiz Sher Mohammad Sahib. As a student in a missionary school
he engaged in interfaith dialogues with the Christian priests
and would explain the reality of the claims of Hazrat Mirza
Sahib to fellow students and teachers. He has been continuously
building on this firm foundation and is today considered one
of the most learned members of the Jamaat.
Prof. Dr. Pasha started his
medical career in Mayo Hospital Lahore and later
moved to New Zealand, followed by U.K. where he
obtained Membership of the Royal College of
Physicians (MRCP) in 1979. He moved back to
Pakistan in April 1981 and took up teaching
assignment in Ayub Medical College Abbottabad. He
was promoted as Professor of Medicine in 1987 and
appointed Head of the Department of Medicine in
1991. In 2001, he was selected to become principal
of the college, but his appointment was cancelled
by the government under pressure from the religious
lobby for obvious reasons. Prof. Dr. Pasha also has
the distinction of being conferred the Fellowship
of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, London (1994)
and Fellowship of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Pakistan in 2001. He is also serving as a
member/chairman of a large number of professional
committees and programmes. He has been a regular
contributor to international and local professional
publications and has travelled widely to attend
conferences and conventions.
He has remained a staunch
member of the Jamaat, and has shown great patience
and commitment to the Movement in times of
adversity by the opponents of the Movement. His
love for the Holy Quran is exemplary. Prof. Dr.
Pasha was elected a member of the
Mujlis-e-Motemideen [General Council of
Trustees] in 1992 and has retained this honour
and served the Jamaat in that capacity ever since.
He commands a lot of respect in the Jamaat for his
piety and goodness. He has always made very
positive contributions about the affairs of the
Jamaat. He has been a regular speaker at the Annual
Ahmadiyya Duaaiya [prayer gathering]
for over 20 years. He is fond of poetry and has
expressed, in his poems, deep sentiments relating
to the Jamaat and the hard times it has been
through. He has served as a trustee of the
Ahmadiyya Anjuman Lahore Missions International
(AALMI) but resigned from this position when it
became difficult for him to attend meetings of the
trust in London. He represented the Central Anjuman
at the World Muslim Convention of Ahmadiyya Anjuman
Ishaat-i-Islam (Lahore) Fiji in April 1985. He also
performed the dedication ceremony of Masjid-i-Noor
in Suva on behalf of Hazrat Ameer Dr. Saeed Ahmad
Khan.
Prof. Dr. Pasha is married
and has three sons. The elder two are qualified
doctors while the third is in the final year of
medical school.
On 3rd November
2002, Prof. Dr. Pasha was unanimously elected as
Ameer and President of Ahmadiyya Anjuman Lahore.
Being at the pinnacle of his career, he has
accepted this responsibility at a tremendous
sacrifice. We request all readers to pray for his
success in uplifting the Jamaat, and that may Allah
give him the strength, wisdom and spiritual prowess
to lead us to successfully spread the message of
Islam to the corners of the world.
Aameen.
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