1974 Anti-Ahmadiyya riots

Syed Ata Ullah Shah BukhariMohammad Abdul Ghafoor HazarviZulfiqar Ali BhuttoShah Ahmad NooraniAbul Ala MaududiAbdul Sattar Khan NiaziAgha Shorish KashmiriSyed Abuzar BukhariSyed Faiz-ul Hassan ShahJanbaz MirzaMuhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi Mirza Nasir AhmadMirza Tahir AhmadMaulana Dost Muhammad ShahidMaulana Abul ‘Ata JallundhariSheikh Muhammad Ahmad MazharMaulana Dost Muhammad ShahidMaulana Syed Muhammad Zakir Hussain Shah Sialvi In the period spanning from late May to early September 1974, an altercation between students of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba and youths of the Ahmadiyya Muslims Community at the Rabwah railway station.

This incidents were marked by a series of events such as protests, violence, property damage, and governmental actions against the Ahmadiyya community across Pakistan.

Furthermore, in response to these events, the government took actions, including constitutional amendments, related to the status of Ahmadis.

[2] During 1974, a group of anti-Ahmadis were aboard a train to Peshawar had stopped at the Rabwah railway station.

The IJT students began to raise slogans against Ahmadiyya and cursed the community’s spiritual figurehead, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

After finding out that the students would be returning to Multan from Peshawar on the 29th of May, dozens of young Ahmadi men gathered at the Rabwah railway station.

A fight ensued and 30 IJT men were severely beaten for insulting the religious sentiments of the Ahmadiyya.

This incident triggered year-long country-wide attacks on Ahmadis leading to the loss of many lives and property.

[6] On September 17, the Parliament of Pakistan unanimously passed an amendment to the constitution defining Ahmadis as 'non-Muslim'.

Jun 07 - Opponents offered Friday Prayers in Ahmadiyya Mosque, Kohat after forcibly occupying it.

Jun 09 - Two Ahmadis Ghulam Sarwar and Israar Ahmad killed in Topi (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

Jun 11 - Two Ahmadis (father and son) Mohammad Zaman Khan and Mubarak Ahmad killed in Balakot.

Jun 13 - Wheat crop and agricultural machinery of an Ahmadi's farm was looted in Shah Nagar.

Jun 15 - House belonging to President of Jamaat Ahmadiyya, Sadhoki Gujranwala, was set on fire.

Jun 29 - An Ahmadi father and son were tortured by Police in Chak 303GB, Toba Tek Singh.

Jul 12 - Ahmadi families in Bhera started starving due to severe boycott.

Jul 19 - Ahmadiyya Mosque attacked and occupied in Takht Hazara district Sargodha.

Aug 04 - A barber's face was painted black for providing hair cut to Ahmadis.

Aug 18 - Mr. Mohammad Akbar, an Ahmadi, was tied up in a jungle for three days in Barali, Azad Kashmir.

Aug 27 - An Ahmadi youngster, kidnapped from Gurmoola Virkan, Gujranwala, was released after 17 days of confinement.

Oct 05 - Despite the presence of Punjab Chief Minister in the city, opponents played havoc with lives and property of Ahmadis in Sargodha.