Ansar ul-Islam: a Barelvi Sunni Muslim group in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
11 April:- Over 50 people, including Sunni (Barelvi) scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.
Her PhD dissertation concerned the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Fazil-e-Barelvi, founder of the Barelvi movement.
Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, a prominent religious organisation in Pakistan that represents the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam.
In 1831, when the Muslim activist Syed Ahmad Barelvi was killed by the Sikhs along with hundreds of Barelvi's mujahideen in the battle of Balakot, many of his mujahideen stayed in Buner under the protection of Akhund Ghaffur.
Founded in 1991 in India, it is ideologically alligned with the Barelvi movement within Sunni Islam.