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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 33 ] creation of Pakistan, but once Pakistan came into being, he accepted it and therefore should be forgiven for the mistakes of the past. But the fact of the matter is that neither the A h r a r nor Maud u d i s have repented. Both Majlis-e-A h r a r and Jam a ‘at-e-Islam i are as much the enemies of Pakistan today as they were in the past. The Mun i r Inquiry Report was published in 1953. You can read it and see it for yourself. The court gave its final verdict with great distress that these people had not accepted Pakistan in the past nor have they accepted it then and that their anti-Pakistan activities had not shown any decline. The Honourable Judges write: The conduct of the Ahrar calls for the strongest com- ment and is especially reprehensible—we can use no milder word—for the reason that they debased a reli- gious cause by pressing it into service for a temporal purpose and exploited religious susceptibilities and sentiments of the people for their personal ends. (Report of The Court of Inquiry, constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab Dis- turbances of 1953, p. 259, Lahore, printed by the Superintendent, Government printing, Punjab, 1954) The A h r a r have always maintained that attitude, as the Honourable Judges noted: Maulvi Muhammad Ali Jullundri admitted in a speech made at Lahore on 15th February 1953, that the Ahrar had been opposed to Partition. . . He also