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Agitation India Prompted Ahmadiyya Chief Distinctive lable to be given up if necessary "I am convinced that the secret hand of India is at the back of the present Anti-Ahmadiyya Agitation", declared Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad on sunday in an interview with the London Daily Mail۔He had positive proof in his possession and would be prepared to put it before the proper Authorities at the proper time, he added۔In the event of the authoritative body in Pakistan dec- laring his community a minority, he would have no hesitation in issuing a mandate to his followers to drop the label of Ahmadi and call themselves Muslims, the Ahmadiyya leader declared۔Sixty-three year old head of the Qadiani branch of the Ahmadiyya Community, Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, in the course of an exclusive interview with Mian Mohd۔Shafi of the Daily Mail categorically denied the allegation that he was planning a coup d'etat to seize political power In Pakistan, He said "Ahmadiyyat is not a political theory۔Ours is a religious movement۔With the present tension between Ahmadyas and non-Ahmadyas only a mad man can think of seizing political power for Ahmadis"۔He added Even if, for the sake of argument, the tiny Ahmadiyya minority succeeds in getting into the seat of autho- rity by force, it should be prepared to be liquidated the very next day at the hands of the bitterly hostile non-Ahmadis۔” Question: In case of a conflict between you and the 5