The Riots of 1953 — Page 32
32 Moosa and Sons, and the Rajput Cycle Works in Nila Gumbad, the Timber yards and godowns of Malik Mohammad Tufail and Malik Barkat Ali on Ravi Road and the house of Malik Abdur Rahman on Mason Road. Within a very short time the belongings of five Ahmadiyya houses on Mozang and Temple Road, including that of Sh. Noor Ahmad, Advocate were looted and burnt. Begum Mir Mohammad Ishaq, widow of a maternal uncle of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community was an indoor patient in the Mayo Hospital. She was in a very serious condition so much so that food could only be administered to her through a tube inserted through the abdoman into the stomach. A violent mob entered the hospital compound and an attack on her was apprehended. It was with great difficulty that she could be removed through the back door and her life saved. 39. At about one O’clock the residence of Sh. Bashir Ahmad Advocate, local Amir Jamaat Ahamdiyya, Lahore, on Temple Road was made the target and processions from different sides converged towards it h urling abuse and vituperation against the Founder and leaders of the Ahmadiyya Community as also ag a inst the said Sheikh Bashir Ahmad. News by telephone and by messenger had already had been pouring in at the residence of Sh. Bashir Ahmad, of attacks on members of the Ahmadiyya Community as well as of the looting of their properties through- out the town, and Sheikh Bashir Ahmad, as already submitted, continued sending out appeals to various Police officials. Having failed to get h e lp and redress through the t e lephone he along with Malik Ghulam Farid M. A. went to the Charing Cross Police Sta- tion personally but was plainly told by t he Police Offic e r on duty that the situation had gone completely out of hand and that they could do not h ing to help them. At about 3 O’clock a strong mob gathered outside the house of Sh. Bashir Ahmad. Some of them