The Qadian Diary — Page 71
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 57 declarations and I invite you to kindly visit Qadian and see things for yourself. Our private information is to be effect that so far no less than 150 people have been shot dead at Qadian including two who were killed in our Central Mosque there. Two members of the Central Ahmadiyya Association have been arrested and many others similarly seized and jailed. Another report says that our men have been forcibly turned out of our T. I. Degree College at Qadian which has been taken possession of by the Military and reported to have been given to the Sikh National College authorities. To crown all, our convoys to Qadian for evacuating women and children have recently been banned on the pretext that Qadian road is under repairs resulting in about three thousand Ahmadi women being stranded in two or three small pockets in the town. I do not know, Sir, whether you can do anything in the matter in spite of your best intentions, but if you are able to do anything I appeal to you in the name of justice and fairness to come to the rescue of an innocent and highly wronged people (who wish to remain in their sacred places) before it is too late. N. B. —Copy forwarded to Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi. ( So far no answer ) The Situation at Qadian, being a Statement by the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community sent to Mr. Gandhi through Pandit Sunder Lal, his personal representative. (Dated Lahore, the 10th October 1947). 1. The Ahmadiyya Community believes that we should be cruel to none. It has from the very beginning set it- self against the view which considers it right to perse- cute human beings holding religious beliefs different