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the S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at ~ e -A hmadiyya this proposal should be reconsidered after three years. This matter was, therefore, taken up once again in Majlis- e-Shura Pakistan 1991. Since the districts had been re zoned, Majlis-e-Shura proposed that a sub-committee should be constituted to re-determine the number and di vision of representatives. A committee was set up with the approval of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IVrh, and it made the following recommendations: 1. The number o f representatives from Jama'ats (exclud ing those from Markaz) should remain 550, as approved in 1967. 2. When the total number of representatives was fixed at 550 in 1967, it was decided that there should be one rep resentative for every 40 Chanda-payers in the major Jama'ats, and 35 in the smaller Jama'ats. But, by the grace of God, the number o f Chanda-payers had grown since that time. It was, therefore, recommended that: (i) 80 Chanda-payers should constitute one unit for the major Jama'ats, on which they should be eligible to send one representative. On the higher fraction o f 80, they should be allowed to send one more representative. Likewise, 50 Chanda-payers should constitute one unit for the smaller Jama'ats, on which one representative should be authorized, and on the higher fraction o f 50 they should be allowed to send one more representative. (ii) With the exception o f Jama'ats in NWFP, Baluchistan and Azad Kashmir, the district-wise increase or decrease 164