Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

The city of Rabwah in the province of Punjab used to be the global headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Community before they were moved to England.

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.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, drafted Pakistan Resolution,[9] Ahmad advised the Ahmadis to support All India Muslim League in the elections of 1945–6.

Khizar Hayat headed the local government in Punjab in 1946, supported by Congress and Akali Dal.

Under president Zia-ul-Haq, an anti-Ahmadiyya ordinance was made in the Constitution of Pakistan which restricted the freedom of religion for Ahmadis.

[11] 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.