Wings of Duty

Wings of Duty — Page 60

Syed Muhammad Ahmad 60 spot where Qasr-e-Khilafat now stands. At that time both this area and the area where Darul Sadar, the Sadar Anjuman and Tehrik-e-Jadid offices and the homes of community workers now stand, was an uneven rocky field. After staying there for a few hours, I laid down some chalk lines on the ground with the help of a community member to mark off a future landing ground for Rabwah. This, however never came to fruition. On another occasion, when Huzoor was going on an official tour of Sindh, I flew to Karachi via Multan and Jacobabad. After that I flew to Hyderabad and Kunri. Since Huzoor’s residence was 25 miles to the north in Mahmoodabad State, his estate in interior Sindh, I rode there by horseback and with the help of Syed Abdur Razzaq Shah we prepared a landing ground very close to Huzoor’s office and residence. I rode back to Kunri and flew the plane to Mahmoodabad. After a few days I flew back to Lahore via Karachi. On my return to Lahore, I made many flights for the community. This was in 1948 when the community had sent an infantry battalion of Ahmadi volunteers (the Furqan Battalion) to join the Pakistan Army fighting in Kashmir. The training centre for the Furqan Battalion was a few miles south of Sarai