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89 A. He may have himself concluded that from the explanation of the doctrinal position. To Court:- Q. It is alleged that in a conversation with Maulvi Muhammad Ishaq, khatib of a mosque in Abbotabad, in August 1949 you expressed the view that you may be considered as a Muslim servant of a kafir Government or a kafir servant of a Muslin Government. Is that correct? A. I doubt it very much. To counsel continued:- Q. Did you tell some Lahore lawyer who met you some time back in Karachi in connection with the location of the Federal Court in Lahore, that the Court may be located in Delhi in future? A. No. I distinctly remember that the suggestion they put for- ward was that the Act might be amended so as to make La- hore the seat of the Federal Court. I said that it would not be a wise move because if any question of the amendment of the Act was taken up, it might be suggested that Dacca should become the seat of the Court, and as East Pakistan had a ma- jority of votes in the Constituent Assembly, the suggestion might be carried. No question could arise whatsoever of the Court sitting in Delhi as it was utterly irrelevant. Q. Did Khwaja Nazir Ahmad meet you in March 1953? A. He might have. Q. Was there any talk between you two as to any clarification of the position of the head of the community with regard to the three demands? A. He mentioned to me that he had either met or intended to meet the head of the community with regard to some clari-