The Reminiscences of Zafrulla Khan — Page 262
246 REMINISCENCES OF SIR MUHAMMAD ZAFRULLA KHAN law came in, a military regime was set up and the Martial Law Administrator, President Ayub, put his foot down and said he was not going to have any nonsense of that kind. Question : As far as the new law about property goes, the Waqf of property, is Ahmadiyya property under the new law ? Zafrulla : No, it is not. It is liable to be placed under the law and there has been a certain amount of criticism of the administration in the press that by not taking over Ahmadiyya Waqf properly the administration has been favouring the Movement. But as has been explained this is no favour. This Ordinance has been promulgated for the purpose that where the Waqf is being abused and the income is not being devoted to the purposes for which the Waqf was set up, the situation should be corrected. If all the Waqfs were administered as well as the Ahmadis are administering theirs, there would be no need for the Ordinance. Question : And the whole position of the Aukaf administrator is to take over as little as possible but to jar people to take better care of their trusts. Is Chaudhri Mohammad Ali now in the Nizam-i-Islami Party ? Zafrulla : He's in the Nizam-i-Islami Party, not the Jamat-i-Islam, but they are as elder sister to younger sister. Question : Has he continued in this new program for Pakistan, to say that he will work against the Ahmadiyya ? Zafrulla : Oh, no. After Martial Law there's been nothing like that. It might flare up again, but so far there has been nothing. They are now so much at loggerheads with each other that they have forgotten us for the moment. If the time should come when it is in somebody's interest to make a show of advocacy of Islam and of defense of Islam, they might start shooting arrows at us again. Question : What about somebody like Maulana Bashani? Is he. . . Zafrulla : No, no. That's East Pakistan. In East Pakistan there has never been any agitation against us, though we have quite substantial communities in East Pakistan. Question : Do you? Is this one of the bigger areas ? Zafrulla : East Pakistan? Next to West Pakistan, yes. Question : About how many Ahmadis ?