KARACHI: Col T.A. Mosley, Royal Scots Greys, speaking on Hyderabad today [Nov 5] at Somerset House … said that extensive looting and massacre of Muslims took place in Hyderabad after the entry of Indian troops into the State. He said that in the districts Muslims suffered heavy loss in life and property. They were dragged out of trains and mercilessly butchered. Sikh troops stopped Hindu looters with one hand and beckoned them on with the other.

Col Mosely believed that the Nizam was a virtual prisoner of the Indian military, who did not even allow him to meet foreign pressmen or answer their written questionnaires. [He] also related his experience of a Sikh soldier in Secunderabad calling upon him to cry out “Jai Hind”. Col Mosely refused, but was saved by the sudden arrival of another officer on the scene.

Questions invited by Col Mosely … led to an interesting discussion on what would have been the fate of Hyderabad if it had acceded to India… . Mr Sarwar Hasan, Secretary of [Pakistan Institute of International Affairs] remarked that … [it] would have been … as that of Muslims in Kapurthala and Kashmir.

Published in Dawn, November 6th, 2023