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1974 Anti-Ahmadiyya riots: what Wikipedia removed

The 1974 Anti-Ahmadiyya riots targeted Pakistan’s Ahmadi minority. Through 2020 the opening said Islamist parties and some mainstream parties sided together to persecution of Ahmadis, naming Islamist parties as a driver of the violence. Today the opening describes only governmental actions against the community, with Islamist surviving once in the body. A reader today learns the government acted against Ahmadis, not that Islamist political parties joined in their persecution.

The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

  • The sentence stating that Islamist parties joined mainstream parties in persecuting Ahmadis, dropped from the opening.

2015 (revision 661620250):

1974 Anti-Ahmadiyya riots was the single largest killing and looting of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan ‘s history. The Islamist parties and some mainstream parties sided together to persecution of Ahmadis.

2025 (revision 1268225870):

Riots targeting the Ahmadi community in Pakistan In the period spanning from late May to early September 1974, an altercation between students of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba and youths of the Ahmadiyya Muslims Community at the Rabwah railway station . This incidents were marked by a series of events such as protests, violence, property damage, and governmental actions against the Ahmadiyya community across Pakistan . These events reportedly resulted in casualties among Ahmadi individuals and damage to Ahmadi mosques. Furthermore, in response to these events, the government took actions, including constitutional amendments, related to the status of Ahmadis. ^ Paracha, Nadeem F. (2021-06-20). “SMOK…

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