Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (Urdu: شیخ رشید احمد‎; born 6 November 1950) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Federal Minister for Railways, in office since 20 August 2018. Ahmed has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018 and is the current leader of the Awami Muslim League. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly between March 1985 and May 2018. He launches his second book "Lal Haveli Sey Akwaam-e-Mutahidda Tak" (From Lal Haveli to UNO).

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, 2012

Quotes

• Jihad is a duty in Islam. ... Those who avoid jihad are not Muslims.
  • Rasheed Ahmad. While speaking in Pakistan’s Parliament.
  • Quoted from “Shocking: Pak minister talks of jihad and Kashmir,” Times of India, March 1, 2019 [1]

• If anyone looks askance at Pakistan, those eyes will be gouged out. Then neither grass will grow, nor birds chirp, or bells ring in temples, because Pakistan is that fortress of Mussalmans which Muslims across the world look up to.
  • 2019, as attributed, quoted in [2][3]