The roots of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat can be traced back to the 1880s when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian proclaimed himself to be a prophet in Islam. The organization gained momentum during the 1953 riots against Ahmadi Muslims. The Court of enquiry report on the disturbances explains the real reasons for this violent uprising against Ahmadiyya. Main reasons being criticism of Ahmadi was due to the theological differences and using the Ahmadiyya issues by Muslim conservatives to gain political mileage. The rioters had three major demands:
The movement launched countrywide campaigns and protests to persecute Ahmadis across the nation. Majlis, along with many religious leaders, spearheaded this movement to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims.
Ahmadis declared Non-Muslims in 1974
Many Islamist theologians Pakistan particularly Ulama-I-Ahle-Sunnat under the leadership of Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui started a successful campaign against the Ahmadis and compelled the members of the National Assembly to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims. And such a clause was inserted in the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan declaring that followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmed are non-Muslims by 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 Shah Ahmad Noorani 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 that called for punitive sanctions on Ahmadis in 1984, commonly known as Ordinance XX.
As early as 2011 and later in 2015, Jalali was leading anti-government protests in support of Barelvi militant Mumtaz Qadri, who had assassinated governor Salmaan Taseer. In 2016, Jalali was one of several leaders of mostly unknown Barelvi groups which engaged in a disorganized anti-government protest that led to the arrest of a large number of protestors. Jalali, who founded a Barelvi sectarian group after Qadri's execution for the assassination of Taseer, refused to comment on the motive for the 2016 protests, claiming that he wanted it to remain a "mystery." Jalali later claimed that the government of Pakistan had given in to a list of demands the protesters had written, but the Interior Ministry denied Jalali's claim. Despite the denial, the protestors vacated the capital, though not before causing twelve million rupees worth of damage to the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus. Later that year, Jalali called for anti-government protests and sermons in Chakwal when the police attempted to institute a curfew after mob violence against religious minorities; fear of the protests and sermons led to an evacuation of Ahmadis from the region. Starting in 2017, Jalali organized multiple separate rallies alongside other Barelvi groups to celebrate Taseer's assassination. During the early 2017 protests, protesters and other clerics from led by Jalali and members of the Sunni Tehreek Barelvi militant group vandalized the Karachi Press Club and defaced paintings of women's rights activists. Consequent to further planned protests, authorities in the Islamabad Capital Territory banned Jalali and other Barelvi leaders it described as sectarian agitators from entering the capital for two months.
Restoration of Khatm e Nabuwat Bill
The government of Pakistan uses the word "oath". This word was changed to "declaration" in "Elections Bill 2017", by government authorities. Country wide objections arose about this change, Minister of Law Zahid Hamid said "The statement of objects and reasons of the amended in order to avoid controversy, there is a consensus among the political parties in the National Assembly that the original text of ‘Declaration and oath by the person nominated”, included in original form-1A should be restored in toto'. Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan, being a pro-Muslim party, went on to protests. The protests occurred in whole country including federal capital, Islamabad. Khadim Hussain Rizvi declared to continue the protests until their demands were met. In November 2017, government restored the previous version of the blasphemy law and Khatm e Nabuwat. They continued their protests even after restoration of words for Khatm-e-Nabuwat for elections bill. According to this Tehreek, it was a plan to weaken Khatm-e-Nabuwat. The Tehreek demanded resignations of Zahid Hamid for he was held responsible for the change of words and Rana Sanaullah Khan for his pro-Ahmadiyya speeches. The government cut off food and water supply to participants of sit-in but they declared to continue the protests until all of their demands were fulfilled. The political unrest caused economic damage to the country.
Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Conference
Annual Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Conference is held every year at Jamia Masjid Ahrar Rabwah under the aegis of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat and Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam.
