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((Short description|Islam in Pakistan))
((pp-pc1))((Ahmadiyya by country))
[[File:Qadiani Proportion by Pakistani District - 2017 Census.svg|thumb|Ahmadi Proportion of each Pakistani District in 2017 according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics|300x300px]]

'''Ahmadiyya in Pakistan''' are members of the [[Ahmadiyya Muslim Community|Ahmadiyya Community]]. The number of Ahmadiyya in the country has been variously estimated to between 0.22% and 2.2% of Pakistan's population.<ref name="ahmadi"> The 1998 Pakistani census states that there are 291,000 (0.22%) Ahmadis in Pakistan. However, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has boycotted the census since 1974 which renders official Pakistani figures to be inaccurate. Independent groups have estimated the Pakistani Ahmadiyya population to be somewhere between 2 million and 5 million Ahmadis. However, the 4 million figure is the most quoted figure and is approximately 2.2% of the country. See:
* over 2 million: ((cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49913b5f2c.html|title=Pakistan: The situation of Ahmadis, including legal status and political, education and employment rights; societal attitudes toward Ahmadis (2006 - Nov. 2008)|date=2008-12-04|author=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada|access-date=2012-06-28))
* 3 million: International Federation for Human Rights: ''International Fact-Finding Mission. Freedoms of Expression, of Association and of Assembly in Pakistan.'' Ausgabe 408/2, Januar 2005, S. 61 ([http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/pk408a-2.pdf PDF])
* 3–4 million: Commission on International Religious Freedom: ''Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.'' 2005, S. 130
* ((cite web|url=http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?page=country&category=&publisher=IRBC&type=QUERYRESPONSE&coi=PAK&rid=&docid=45f1478f20&skip=0|title=Pakistan: Situation of members of the Lahori Ahmadiyya Movement in Pakistan|access-date=April 30, 2014))</ref><ref>over 2 million: ((Cite web | author= Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | title= Pakistan: The situation of Ahmadis, including legal status and political, education and employment rights; societal attitudes toward Ahmadis (2006 - Nov. 2008) | date= 2008-12-04 | url= http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49913b5f2c.html | access-date= 2012-06-28))</ref><ref>3 million: International Federation for Human Rights: ''International Fact-Finding Mission. Freedoms of Expression, of Association and of Assembly in Pakistan.'' Ausgabe 408/2, Januar 2005, S. 61 ([http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/pk408a-2.pdf PDF])</ref><ref>3–4 million: Commission on International Religious Freedom: ''Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.'' 2005, S. 130</ref> Hence, Pakistan is the home to the largest population of Ahmadis in the world. The city of [[Rabwah]] in the province of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] used to be the global headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Community before they were moved to [[England]]. 

Ahmadis in Pakistan have often come under [[Persecution of Ahmadiyya|religious persecution and discrimination]].<ref name="Uddin 2014">((cite book |author-last=Uddin |author-first=Asma T. |year=2014 |chapter=A Legal Analysis of Ahmadi Persecution in Pakistan |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9TVCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 |editor-last=Kirkham |editor-first=David M. |title=State Responses to Minority Religions |location=[[Farnham|Farnham, U.K.]] and [[Burlington, Vermont]] |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]]/[[Routledge]] |series=Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements |pages=81-98 |isbn=978-1-4724-1647-6 |lccn=2013019344))</ref> According to a Pew Research Center, only 7% of Pakistanis consider Ahmadis as Muslims.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/10/in-pakistan-most-say-ahmadis-are-not-muslim/|title=In Pakistan, most say Ahmadis are not Muslim))</ref> 

The Ahmadiyya movement originated in the city of [[Qadian]]. Following the independence of Pakistan, Ahmadis moved to the city of Rabwah to establish their headquarters. There have been a number of notable [[Pakistani people]] who have belonged to the Ahmadiyya Community, including the country's first [[Nobel Prize laureate]], [[Abdus Salam]] and Pakistan's first foreign minister [[Muhammad Zafarullah Khan]]. Ahmadiyya and [[Mahdavia]] constitute the two main Mahdi'ist creeds in Pakistan.<ref name="samira">Sheikh, Samira. "Aurangzeb as seen from Gujarat: Shi ‘i and Millenarian Challenges to Mughal Sovereignty." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 28.3 (2018): 557-581.</ref>

==History==

=== Pre-independence era ===

==== Supporters of Pakistani movement ====
((main|Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad|Muhammad Zafarullah Khan|Pakistan Movement|All India Kashmir Committee|Furqan Force|Ahmadiyya Militia))

===== Movement for returning of Jinnah =====
((main|Muhammad Ali Jinnah))
[[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad]], the second spiritual leader of the community, ordered the cleric of [[Ahmadiyya Muslim Community|Ahmadiyya  Community]] in England named [[A. R. Dard|Maulana Abdul Raheem Dard]], to talk with [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Jinnah]]. He met Jinnah in King's Bench Walk, London and they spoke for three hours.<ref>((cite web|title=Movement for returning Jinnah to India|url=http://www.thepersecution.org/50years/mov4.html|publisher=Perseuction.org|access-date=13 March 2012))</ref> Jinnah agreed to it and returned to [[India]].

===== Support in AIML in 1946 elections of India =====
[[Muhammad Zafarullah Khan]], drafted [[Pakistan Resolution]],<ref name="FactsAreFacts">((cite web | url=http://www.awaminationalparty.org/books/factsarefacts.pdf | title=Facts are Facts: The Untold Story of India's Partition | access-date=March 9, 2011 | author=Khan, Wali | pages=40–42 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219220847/http://www.awaminationalparty.org/books/factsarefacts.pdf | archive-date=December 19, 2010 | url-status=dead ))</ref> Ahmad advised the [[Ahmadis]] to support [[All India Muslim League]] in the elections of 1945–6.<ref>((cite web|title=Support of AIML in elections by Bashir Ahmad|url=http://www.thepersecution.org/50years/mov6.html|publisher=Persecution.org|access-date=13 March 2012))</ref> Khan also gave a speech in [[London]] for the freedom of India.

===== Resignation of Khizar Hayat Tiwanna =====
((main|Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana))
Khizar Hayat headed the local government in Punjab in 1946, supported by Congress and Akali Dal. Muslim League opposed his government. Due to the boycotts engulfing the Punjab, he resigned as Premier on 2 March 1947. Later, he moved to Pakistan for a few years and then to California, where he died.

===== Struggle for Muslim Rights in Boundary Commission =====
((main|Radcliffe Line))

=== After the creation of Pakistan and creation of Rabwah ===
((main|Rabwah))
After the creation of [[Pakistan]], some Ahmadis with the Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad came to Pakistan and constructed their own city which they considered a promised land.

==== 1953 Anti-Ahmadiyya riots ====
((main|1953 Lahore riots))
A massive persecution was launched by anti-Ahmadiyya groups to persecute the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community by Islamists including [[Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan|Jamaat-e-Islami]]. The [[Government of Pakistan]] put down the unrest. The [[Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam|Ahrar]] sect was banned shortly after.

==== 1974 Anti-Ahmadiyya riots and Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan ====
((main|Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan))
[[File:Ahmadiyya representers at National Assambly 1974.jpg|thumb|[[Mirza Nasir Ahmad]] (center), along with [[Mirza Tahir Ahmad]] (right) and other Ahmadi personalities who represented the community in the [[Pakistan National Assembly]] in 1974]]
Amidst more massive persecution and the appearance of an Anti-Ahmadiyya movement called Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat, Pasban Khatme Nabuwwat launched by all [[Islamist]] parties. They forced the Government of Pakistan under [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]] to pass a constitutionally [[Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan]] for declaring members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as non-Muslims.

==== 1984 Anti-Ahmadiyya Amendment ====
((main|Ordinance XX))

Under president [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]], an anti-Ahmadiyya ordinance was made in the [[Constitution of Pakistan]] which restricted the freedom of religion for Ahmadis. According to this law, Ahmadis cannot call themselves Muslim or "pose as Muslims" which is punishable by three years in prison.<ref>((cite web|title=ORDINANCE NO. XX OF 1984|url=http://www.thepersecution.org/50years/paklaw.html|publisher=The Persecution|access-date=14 November 2011))</ref>

==== Headquarters shifted to London ====
Following the enactment of these two amendments, which legalized persecution of Ahmadis, [[Mirza Tahir Ahmad]], the [[caliph]] of the community, shifted the central headquarters to London in 1985.

==Community issues==

===Persecution and anti-Ahmadiyya sentiment===
((main|Persecution of Ahmadis))
[[Qadiani]] and [[Mirzai]] are the derogatory terms used for Ahmadis. Anti-Ahmadiyya groups have called for an [[Islamist]] [[jihad]] to finish off the community.<ref>((cite press release|title=Anti-Ahmadiyya conferences on the increase in Pakistan|publisher=Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat International|date=30 April 2010|url=http://www.alislam.org/egazette/press-release/anti-ahmadiyya-conferences-on-the-increase-in-pakistan/|access-date=14 November 2011))</ref> In 2018, [[Azad Jammu and Kashmir]] parliament unanimously declares Ahmadis as non-Muslims.<ref>((cite news |last=Hamid Rao |first=Altaf |date=7 February 2018 |title=AJK Parliament declares Ahmadis as non-Muslims |url=http://nation.com.pk/07-Feb-2018/ajk-parliament-declares-ahmadis-as-non-muslims |work=The Nation (Newspaper) |location=MIRPUR |access-date=9 August 2021))</ref>

Pakistanis usually label Ahmadis as [[Qadiani|Qadianis]], which is a derogative term to the community.<ref name="Ispahani2017">((cite book|author=Farahnaz Ispahani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jl7ODQAAQBAJ&pg=PT105|title=Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities|date=2 January 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-062167-4|pages=105–))</ref> Pakistan's [[Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan|Second Amendment to the Constitution]] officially declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslims.<ref name="2ndamend">((cite web|title=Constitution (Second Amendment) Act, 1974|url=http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/amendments/2amendment.html|access-date=21 January 2020|website=The Constitution of Pakistan|publisher=pakistani.org))</ref><ref name="Berberian">((cite journal|last=Berberian|first=Linda J.|date=1987|title=Pakistan Ordinance XX of 1984: International Implications on Human Rights|url=https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ilr/vol9/iss3/5|journal=Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review|volume=9|issue=3|access-date=21 January 2019))</ref>

==See also==
((Portal|Islam|Pakistan))
* [[Minorities in Pakistan]]
* [[Islam in Pakistan]]

==References==
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[[Category:Persecution by Muslims]]
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