Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme Nabuwwat

Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat ("The League to Protect the End of Prophethood") is the programmatic name of a Pakistani Barelvi organization and radical Islamic religious movement in Pakistan aiming to protect the belief in the finality of Prophethood of Muhammad based on the concept of Khatam an-Nabiyyin. It was founded by Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi in 1953 with Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, Moulana Sardar Ahmad Qadri, Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari and later on the prominent Barelvi leaders Shah Ahmad Noorani, Khalid Hasan Shah and Muhammad Shafee Okarvi also joined them to fight together against Ahmadiyya Movement.
After Independence of Pakistan
The movement’s history reads that after Pakistan came into being, as a result of the partition of the subcontinent, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, better known as Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, the first foreign minister of Pakistan, allegedly started patronising the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and nurtured it using his office. Although no evidence was ever provided of this allegation. The Court of enquiry report on the disturbances explains the real reasons for this violent uprising against Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Main reasons being persecution of Ahmadi Muslims due to theological differences and using the Ahmadiyya issues by religious fanatics to gain political mileage. This was the first time that an all-parties movement to protect the finality of Muhammad started to surface. This movement — eventually called Kul Jamaati Majlis-e-Aml Tahafuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat had three demands:
# Removal of Zafarullah Khan from the foreign ministry
# Removal of Ahmadis from top government offices;
# Declaration of Ahmadis as non-Muslims.
This was in 1953, when Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat had just started working informally. The movement launched countrywide campaigns and protests to counter Ahmadis across the world.
Ahmadis declared Non-Muslims
The Ulama of Pakistan, particularly Ulama-e Ahl-e Sunnat, under the leadership of Shah Ahmad Noorani, compelled the members of the National Assembly to declare Ahmadi Muslims as non-Muslims; in 1973, they changed the constitution of Pakistan in the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan.
After meeting the first agenda, Khatme-Nabuwat started the next phase of their campaign - to force Ahmadis to comply with the new law. They started demanding legal sanctions on Ahmadis barring them from using the title of Muslim. This campaign was at its peak when Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani (Karachi), and Punjab-based Khalid Hasan Shah were leading the Kul Jamaati Majlis-e-Amal Tahafuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat in 1984 and 1985. The then president General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq passed an ordinance in 1984 amending the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) that called for punitive sanctions on Ahmadis in 1984, commonly known as Ordinance XX. This was another target achieved by the Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat.
Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Conference
Annual Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Conference hold every year at Jamia Masjid Ahrar, Chennab Nagar (Rabwah) under the aegis of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat and Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam to aware people about the faith of Khatme Nabuwat as well as deception of Qadianis. Leader's of all political and religious parties, lawyers, student leader's, ullema of all sects, journalists participate in this conference.

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