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13 reputation which he succeeded in establishing for Pakistan in the international 24 sphere unfortunately created political rivalry in some responsible parties and the Anjuman has reason to suspect that this political group also helped the Ahrar in their campaign of vilification of the Community which they had now taken in hand in right earnest. 15. In an article published in the ‘Azad’ Lahore, dated 30th April, 1950, it was confessed that the previous attitude of the Ahrar towards the Muslim League and the Government was dictated by expediency. They professed allegiance to the League and the Government of the day to secure a footing in the new set up and that now they could lift the veil from their face and manifest themselves in true colours. From that time onward the campaign of deliberate misrepresentation and vilification against the Ahmadiyya Community assumed alarming proportions. In Friday sermons , in the Mosques and in other congregations the gospel of hatred against the Ahmadiyya Community was openly and violently preached. The Ahmadis were dubbed as apostates who should be done to death and completely extirpated. It was declared an act of piety to kill them wherever they could be found. It was falsely 25 and most shamefacedly represented that before the Boundary Commission the Ahmadiyya Community had asked that the District of Gurdaspur should be placed in the Indian Union. In fact all the misfortunes of the Muslims in Pakistan were attributed as they called it to the poor and dishonest representation of their case before the Boundary Commission by Ch. Muhammad Zafrullah Khan. 26 24 Alyaum, Cairo, 28. 6. 52; Aljadida, Cairo, 22. 6. 52. 25 Ahmadiyya Memorandum P. 13. 26 The Azad, 14. 11. 52.