تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 15) — Page 566
OYN Muslim۔Not even one member of the ruling party had the courage to announce publicly that it was the birth right of everyone, including a Muslim, to disagree with any belief however sacred in the eyes of the Muslims۔"Politicians were playing with fire", stated Anwar Ali, Inspector-General of Police in West Punjab before the Court of Inquiry, "by arousing religious feelings of a fanatical population۔All political parties, including the Muslim League, tried to make political capital out of the situation۔No politician had the strength to say that the (public) demands were unreasonable; on the other hand they all placed themselves on the crest of an agitational wave۔Politicians in this country do not consider any weapon too low۔" It is no wonder that the agitation took a most virulent and violent form۔What carnage, what holocausts, and what destruction was wrought in the name of Islam in West Pakistan especially in the Punjab during those dark and terrible days of March and April۔Hundreds of Ahmadis were looted, dozens of their villages were burnt, men and women were roasted alive and thousands were rendered homeless۔There was a reign of terror for this small Muslim Community۔"What happened in Lahore and elsewhere in the Punjab should make us hang our heads down in shame", confessed Ghulam Mohammed, Governor General of Pakistan۔Ultimately when the civil administration failed to deal with the disturbances Nazim-ud-Din Government was obliged to hand over the area to the army and impose martial law on it to restore normalcy۔Just as the followers of Jan Sangh, Mahasabha and other Hindu Communal parties think that by adoption of a secular constitution for the country a great boon has been conferred on the Muslims in India,