The Qadian Diary — Page 99
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 85 felt helpless against stronger propaganda. Two secretatries of the Central Ahmadiyya Organisation, one assistant secretary, three missionaries and several other workers have been arrested at Qadian on false charges, vexatious house searches including that of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community have been made, mohalla after mohalla has been forcibly evacuated and looted, public buildings of the Ahmadiyya Community including the Talimul Islam Degree College building, the Talimul Islam High School building and the Noor Hospital, have been taken possession of and our men ejected, Ahmadiyya Press and the Central Library have been sealed, several women have been abducted, and about 200 Muslims have been killed without their dead bodies being allowed to be approached and burried by their relatives; and yet you say there has been no harrassment and that the Ahmadiyya Community is being protected. Would to God your own former history had provided you with a lesson for a fairer treatment of weak and oppressed parties! (The telegram remains unanswered). Editorial by Mr. F. W. Buston, Editor of the Civil & Military Gazette, Lahore, in its issue of 23rd October 1947. TEST CASE. Qadian has become, in the eyes of the world, a living test of India’s intentions towards the minorities in her territory. The Ahmadiyya Community, for whom the town of Qadian is far more than a headquarters, are close-knit, hard-working and highly disciplined. Scrupulous loyalty to the Government under which they live is with them almost an article of religious faith. Had Qadian, in the division of the Punjab, become part of Pakistan, and had Pakistan developed into a theocratic state, Ahmadies might well have apprehended bitter