In the 20th century, the Barelvi movement spread beyond India to other parts of South Asia and the Muslim world, and became known as Ahl e sunnat wal jamat.
[5][6] In 2006, a bomb attack on a Jamaat Ahle Sunnat organised event to celebrate the mawlid (birthday of Muhammad) in Karachi killed at least 63 people and injured over 80.
[10] In 2011, scholars from the organization advised Muslims not to attend the funeral of Salmaan Taseer, the Punjab governor who had recently been assassinated in response to his outspoken beliefs against blasphemy laws.
[11] On 20 March, 2014, attackers shot and killed a Crime Branch sub-inspector and wounded another in Anwar Jafri near the Coast Guard roundabout in Korangi, Karachi.
[19][20][21] On February 2 2018, militants shot dead a civilian and Hazrat Abbas, the caretaker of a Imambargah, in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.