Sadia Saeed's Cambridge University Press study traces how Pakistan's state institutions moved from treating the Ahmadi question as a matter for the courts and the constitution to enforcing a specific religious position through law, using the 1953 Punjab disturbances and the Munir Report's own findings as the opening case in that longer history, which she carries through to the 1974 constitutional amendment declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim. Her account works from the Munir Report and contemporary Pakistani press and government records rather than proposing an independent casualty reconstruction of its own.
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PublisherCambridge University Press 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA university-press sociological and legal history of the Ahmadi question in Pakistan, published in Cambridge's Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics series, that situates the 1953 disturbances within the longer institutional history rather than treating them as an isolated riot. Sources
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