The Qadian Diary — Page 101
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 87 Letter from the Chief Secretary, Central Ahmadiyya Organisation, Lahore, to Mr. Sri Parakasa, High Commissioner for India in Pakistan, Karachi. (Dated Lahore, the 25th October 1947) Hazrat Khalifatulmasih, Head of the Ahmadiyya Community, Qadian, District Gurdaspur, now at Rattan Bagh, Lahore, has received a report from his followers in Karachi to the effect that you were pleased to receive a deputation of the local Ahmadies and that you very kindly sympathised with the most sad and tragic happenings at Qadian, our headquarters, and promised to help the Qadian case to the best of your power. I hasten to thank you for the kind and sympathetic hearing you gave our Karachi brethren and to supply you with a brief summary of the long tale of woe and misery that our headquarters has gone through during the last two months and a half. 1. Our tragic story began with sudden and wholesale attacks on Muslim villages of the Gurdaspur district by armed gangs of Sikhs who were helped by the local Police. This designed campaign immediately followed the announcement of the Boundary Commission Award which assigned our district, in spite of its being a Muslim majority area, to East Punjab. One by one the Muslim villages fell, their inhabitants were driven out and their property looted, accompanied, of course, by ruthless killing, arson and abduction. Many of these villages were inhabited by Ahmadies who suffered the same fate. In fact they were worse sufferers as they resisted Sikh Jathas and yielded only when the Police or the Military sided with the attackers. The gory circle round-about Qadian was