Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya community in 1889, claiming to be the foretold Messiah and Mahdi in Islam. However, many Muslims do not accept these arguments, resulting in a theological division.
The Pakistani government has enacted a series of laws and ordinances that restrict Ahmadi religious practices, including Ordinance XX of 1984, which prohibits them from professing or promoting their faith during the regime of Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and is intended to prohibit the practice of Islam as well as the use of Islamic terms and titles by the Ahmadiyya Community. That came after the 1974 constitutional second amendment declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims during the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
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