The Supreme Plan for the Universal Regeneration of Islam — Page 16
[ 16 ] unit. True, you will not obtain a majority in Pakistan, but as a unit you will attain an honourable place and you will be able to express yourselves in a proper way. Now this legitimate stand is being distorted and presented as if Ahmad i s were conspiring to establish a separate state by an armed aggression. The passage quoted above is before your [government of Pakistan’s] eyes and its very content rejects the conclusion drawn by you. This conclusion cannot be arrived at by any stretch of the imagination. But let me tell you, if this is a conspiracy, then the Ahmad i s have prior to this been fostering even more dreadful and heinous conspiracies openly in the light of day. As this so-called conspiracy has been openly disclosed in a khu t ba [sermon] and published in the Daily al-Fa d l , similarly, all the conspiracies that might be blamed upon the Ahmad i s are like an open book which has regularly been published. If those were conspiracies in any sense of the word, they were never kept secret. Rather, they were given wide publicity, particularly among you. It is you who take pains to proscribe them in order to hide them from public eyes. So far, as we are concerned, we wish to expose the conspiracies without hesitation. On the contrary, you are the people who seek to curb and hide them from the sight of the world. Irrespective of all this, one very important factor needs one’s attention. The central government happens to be so sensitive in the case of Balochistan as to open volleys of bullets if a Baluch i Sard a r [Chief] sitting in the far-flung