The Qadian Diary — Page 98
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 84 helpless people who had been made the deliberate victims of cruelty really upset me more than any of the battle scenes and casualties that I had seen during the war on the continent and in Burma. “The policy that the Indian Government is adopting about this town (Qadian) and its Muslim population, is absolutely contrary to the promises and intentions uttered by them from time to time in connection with the welfare and protection of the minorities. The town has been virtually cut off from the outside world. The rail service was suspended on August 12, and was shortly followed by the cutting off of all telegraphic and telephonic communications. Two private two-seater aeroplanes were forbidden to land or take off under an absurd and false allegation that they had been used to bomb and machine-gun Sikh villages. “I left Qadian on September 15, in an armed convoy of two army lorries, and eventually reached Lahore. I was fortunate to arrive without any incident. A convoy that followed which was loaded to capacity with refugees was attacked a few miles from Qadian by a gang of Sikhs. ” Telegram sent to Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Premier Indian Union by the Chief Secretary Central Ahmadiyya Organisation, Lahore. (Dated Lahore, the 21st October 1947) A Karachi press telegram says that you deny arrest and harrassment of Qadian Muslims and that the Ahmadiyya Community is being protected by the Military under the supervision of a Magistrate. It appears that the old story of the Congress versus Government is being repeated when the old Government despite harrassing the Congress denied all allegations of harrassment and the Congress