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migrate en masse to Afghanistan if British troops were not withdrawn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.