For much of the evening, the Caliph sat quietly at the high table, his head bowed, breaking pose only when it was time to deliver his speech. Even then he was subdued. “Is there any benefit to holding this event?” he asked the 600 seated guests of his Surrey Kingdom. Hundreds of thousands more were watching on TVs in Lahore, Lagos and beyond. When he launched the first Peace Symposium in 2004, Hazrat Mirza Masroor had been the Fifth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya for little more than a year.