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ACTUAL RECIPIENTS OF HONOUR. AND STIPENDS. This persistent tirade against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its founder, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, often tends to create an impression that the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Movement have something to hide and their false alarm against the Ahmadis is merely a smoke screen to cover their own faults. A casual glance over the history of British India and the British Civil List of Honours sufficiently exposes the truth which these critics so desperately wish to conceal. . During their reign of India, the British Raj conferred civil honours upon many an indigenous Indian. Yet, while only one Ahmadi Muslim,. Sir Muhammed Zafarullah Khan had a title conferred upon him, the. British monarchs honoured numerous other Muslim leaders of non. Ahmadiyya persuation with Orders of British Knighthood. Allama Sir. Muhammed Iqbal for instance, the Indian poet laureate whose heart was rent by the death of the British Empress of India 63 was but only one of these many Indians decorated and knighted by the Raj. . Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the renowned Muslim educationalist and the founder of Aligarh Institute was yet another Muslim leader of the Indo. Pak sub-continent who was decorated by the British Raj in India and so were His Highness Sir Aga Khan, the leader of the Ismailia Community; the Rt. Hon. Sir Syed Amir Ali; Sir Fazl i Husain, leader of the Punjab. Unionist Party; Sir Khizar Hayat Khan, Chief Minister of Punjab;. Chaudhry Sir Shahabuddin, Editor of Indian Cases and President of the. Punjab Legislative Council; Maulvi Sir Rahim Bakhsh, member of the. Punjab Legislature; Sir Akbar Hydari, Prime Minister of Hyderabad;. Sahibzada Sir Abdul Qayyum, Nawab of Chhatri; Sir Muhammad Shafi and Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah; Sir Abdul Halim Ghaznavi, member of the Central Assembly and Sir Abdul Qadir, member of the. Advisory Council of the Secretary of State and Sir Feroz Khan Noon,. Minister of Punjab. This is but a tiny fraction of the Indian Muslims of non Ahmadiyya persuasion who were decorated and knighted by the. British Raj in India. 63. Iqbal, Sir Muhammed: Bakayyat e Iqbal: Aina e Adab, Lahore 49