“50th Anniversary of Pakistan declaring Ahmadiyyas Non-Muslims, the community that was at the forefront of demanding a separate Pakistan”, Opindia, September 7, 2024:
“Today, 7th September 2024, marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous day when Pakistan constitutionally relegated the Ahmadiyya community as a non-Muslim minority. Incidentally, Ahmadiyya, a Muslim sect that was at the forefront of the creation of Pakistan, was (almost overnight) declared non-Muslim in Pakistan on the fateful day of 7th September 1974.
Notably, the ‘Ahmadiyya question’ had been lingering among the Muslim community for nearly a century. However large-scale sectarian riots broke out in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1974. The incident unfolded after the youths of the Ahmadiyya community clashed with Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba (IJT — the student wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami).
These clashes incidentally took place at the Rabwa railway station, which was predominantly an Ahmadiyya town. It also housed the community’s spiritual headquarters……”
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