The Qadian Diary — Page 27
Reproduced in the following pages are two written eyewitness testimonies of key events recorded in. The first relates to the diary entry of 7 September 1947, and is the testimony of Abdul Karim, one of three men who were arrested by the authorities during the delivery of a memo to the deputy commissioner of Gurdaspur. The statement is hand-written and is stapled at the end of the original manuscript of from where it has been translated. The second testimony was recorded by Aziz Ahmad Bajwa and was included in the booklet Qadian—A Test Case which comprised part of and was sent to various officials and government departments to apprise them of the situation in the town during the disturbances which broke out after the announcement of the partition of India and Pakistan. The testimony relates to the ransacking and seizing of the home of Sir Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan and has been preserved and reproduced faithfully as it was recorded in Qadian—A Test Case, without any form of amendments or editing of spelling or grammatical errors and so on.