In 1984, the headquarters were moved to the United Kingdom with Mirza Tahir Ahmed, first to London and then in 2019 to the Islamabad compound in Tilford, Surrey.

The formal inauguration of the settlement took place on 20 September 1948 after prayers and a sacrifice of five goats at the corners and centre of the area.

[5][6] The town was named Rabwah by then leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad.

[7] However, the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab passed a resolution on 17 November 1998 changing the name of Rabwah to ‘Nawan Qadian’.

From a historical perspective, Rabwah is from where Muhammad Bin Qasim, after conquering Sindh and Multan, crossed the Chenab River and moved towards Kashmir.

More than 100 Arab soldiers lost their lives in the battle and a "Graveyard of Martyrs" exists to this day in Chiniot.

The land was bought by the Ahmadiyya community following the migration of most of its members from Qadian and other parts of Indian Punjab, to the newly created nation of Pakistan.

[13] Languages by number of speakers in the Lalian Tehsil[14] The city has a population of 70,000, of which 97 percent belong to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.

[15]: iii  In 1989, a report was registered by Punjab police against the whole of the population of the city for the crime that they were displaying Quranic texts on their graves and buildings.

The area is higher than the surrounding plains due to the dry hills which dot the landscape, providing a natural barrier against floods.

[17] The area, which used to be arid and barren, has been transformed through more than fifty years of aggressive plantation into a lush green city.

The city shares typical weather patterns of the northwestern Subcontinent: sweltering summers and pleasant to warm winters.

The summer season is from April to October where May, the hottest month, sees temperatures regularly reach 40 °C or 104 °F.

Summer also brings the Indian Monsoon which increases the precipitation in the month of June and July to above 80 millimetres or 3 inches.

The winter season is from November to February where January is the coldest month and temperatures may fall to the freezing point.

Rabwah can be accessed by the M-2 (National Highway Motorway 2) while the nearest airports are in Faisalabad (48 kilometres (30 mi)).

It is a revolutionary project in which Nazarat Taleem has started delivering all the basic and necessary facilities for disable children in the separate school including special buses to pick and drop etc.

Founded in 1958 it has now become one of the medical facilities in the area providing hospital services not only to the local community but also to patients from towns and villages from further afield.