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Muhammad Hasan

City: Sialkot

Muhammad Hasan, alias Muhammad Yakub, Muhajir, B. A.; son of Ghulam Nabi, Katib, ’’Paisa Akbar", Lahore, originally from Village Wadala Sandhuan, District Sialkot. In February 1915 when a B. A. student in the Lahore Islamia College, he fled across the border with other Lahore students and associated with the anti-British party in Kabul. On the 10th of July 1916 he was sent to the tribal territory with a party of Indian revolutionaries, bearing secret letters from S. Nasrulla Khan to the frontier Mullas and Maliks, urging them to unite and wage war against the British. He was subsequently sent to Tirah to join a party of Turks. He was listed as a "Lieutenant Colonel" in M. Obeidullah's "Army of God". He was reported to be at Chamarkand during the Afghan war of 1919 and in February 1920 he was reported to have been appointed Superintendent of the Mujahidin's Press at Chamarkand. In May he took part in a Mahsud Jirga held at Kaniguram and was one of the signatories to an ultimatum sent to the Political Agent at Wana threatening that the Mahsuds would migrate en masse to Afghanistan if British troops were not withdrawn from their territory. Was Confidential Secretary to General Shah Mahmud in Simat-i-Janubi whom he accompanied wherever he went. From April 1920 onwards he was attached to the notorious Haji Abdur Razzak as his assistant in the Afghan intrigues in Waziristan and Khost and came to notice in connection with the "Ghazi" newspaper of Khost in February 1924 he was reported to be still in Khost but was not heard of for some time. In 1927 was employed as a school master in Harbiyah College, Kabul. He attended a meeting of the Indian patriots held under the presidency of Maulvi Abdur Rahim alias Maulvi Bashir (A-5) in Kabul on 1st November 1930 to celebrate the anniversary of the American Ghadr Party During 1931. He frequently visited the Russian Legation and in August 1932 attended a meeting held at Ebner's house. He is employed as Secretary and translator in the office of the Prime Minister, Kabul. Associates with Gurmukh Singh (G-54) and other members of the Ghadr Party and is reported to have been disliked by the late King Nadir Shah and the Prime Minister. He was suspected to be acting as a channel of correspondence between the Sikh Ghadrites in America and them confreres in Kabul. A confirmed revolutionary and Pan-Islamist.

Description : Age about 38 years; height 5-7"; well built; wheat complexion; round face; walks quickly.