Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 37
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 37 ] Explaining the objectives of A h r a r, the Enquiry Report states: …that their object was to create dissensions among Muslims and to undermine public confidence in the stability of Pakistan, that the agitation [of 1953] was clearly designed to destroy Muslim solidarity by fomenting internecine dissensions under the cloak of religion… ( Ibid. ) On p. 259 of the same Report, it is written: 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… ( Report of the Court of Inquiry , constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Pun- jab Disturbances of 1953, printed by the Superinten- dent, Government printing, Punjab, 1954, p. 259) In reference to the A h r a r i leader Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i Jall u ndr i , they write, on p. 256 of the report: Maulvi Muhammad Ali Jallundri admitted in a speech made at Lahore on 15th February 1953, that the Ahrar had been opposed to Partition… Both before and after the Partition, he also used the word ‘ palidistan ’ for Pakistan… in one of the speeches made at Lahore by the Ahrar leader, Amir-e-Shari’at Sayyad Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Pakistan was