The Qadian Diary — Page 36
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 36 truck the whole night through. When anyone of us went that side he was threatened to go back or he would be shot. 9. That these soldiers kept on removing the moveables on the truck as before during the nights of the 28th and 29th of September 1947. On the night of the 30th September these very soldiers came to the serv- ants’ quarters accompanied by three Sikhs armed with naked swords and lifted two she-buffaloes and one mare threatening us with death if we moved. 10. That between seven and eight in the morning on the 1st October, 1947, I was again sent for by the Havildar who told me that we must vacate the house by midday as their soldiers were arriving who would henceforth live in the house. Accordingly saying that if we did not leave we shall be shot we were forcibly removed from the house. 11. That on the 2nd October 1947 I again went to Bait- ul-Zafar at about noon, but an officer whose rank I do not know asked me who I was. I told him that I was in charge of the house, but he shouted at me to get out as I had no right there, saying that I should not come there again. 12. That we have been forcibly removed from Bait-ul- Zafar by the Military and have been threatened with death and these soldiers have also looted the property in Bait-ul-Zafar. (Sd. ) AZIZ AHMAD, Deponent. Dated 7th October 1947.