Muhammad Iqbal, Shaidai, alias Iqbal Shaidai, alias Iqbal Hussain, son of Master Ghulam Ali, of Purhiran, Sialkot City. He passed the F. A. examination in 1914 and became a shaidai of the Anjuman-i-Khuddam-i- Ka'ba in June 1914. He was also the Treasurer of the Sialkot Branch of the Anjuman. In February 1915 he with other youths of Sialkot city went to Buner, Tribal Territory, via Mardan, probably to incite the tribes against the British Government, a venture which proved unsuccessful. He was restricted to the limits of the Sialkot district, but the order was cancelled in November 1918. In May 1920 he disappeared and it was later discovered that he had proceeded on Hijrat to Kabul where he mixed with the well-known revolutionaries, Maulvi Obeidulla, Barkatualla and Risaldar Rukan-ud-Din, and engaged in spreading anti-British propaganda. It was believed that he was financed by the Bolsheviks. In August 1921 he was reported to have arrived at Tashkent en route to Anatolia but he was persuaded to return to Kabul, where he could do more revolutionary work. At the end of 1922 he is understood to have been expelled from Kabul with other Muhajirs and in 1923 he found his way to Moscow. In March 1923 he was reported to be at Angora, where it appears he received a cold reception, as the Turks refused to recognize him as a Maulvi on account of his past connection with the Bolsheviks. From Angora he is reported to have gone to Paris and thence to Rome where in October he was associated with Roy. Though at first disinclined to fall in with him he was later found to be translating some of Roy's pamphlets. In December 1923 he was living in Rome in Straitened circumstances. In 1925 he wished to return to India where he had been offered a Muslim educational appointment but it was ordered that in view of his past history he should present himself for examination by the authorities in England before being permitted to return. This he has not done up to the present. In 1927 he was believed to be in Rome but shortly afterwards moved to Marseilles and Paris where he worked for M. N. Roy's European organization. In 1928 he again applied to return to India but was refused. Attended the meeting of the League Against Imperialism held at Frankfort in 1929 as a representative of the Indian Revolutionary Association. In May 1930 he was reported to be in Paris and to be intending to return to India, possibly owing to Roy's expulsion from the Comintern and the loss of his livelihood. In October 1930 he wrote to Gurmukh Singh (G-54) in Kabul that he had been appointed as an agent in Europe, evidently by Rattan Singh (R-36), of the Indo-American Trading Co., which is a Ghadrite concern. In the following month he wrote to him again that men could be sent everywhere on the plea of business, "particularly as a war was coming on ahead". Afterwards he was mixed up with Rattan Singh in a conspiracy to smuggle arms for distribution among the border tribes of India. Subsequent information showed that he was acting as a channel for secret communication between the Kabul and American Ghadrites and Moscow. He also acted as a general agent of the Ghadr Party in Paris by making arrangements for the journey of students sent to him by the Ghadr Party to Moscow. In October 1931 he was in correspondence with the Private Secretary to H. M. King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan. He was in the Hejaz during the Haj season, 1931. Early in 1932 he was reported to be conducting an Export and Import Agency in Paris. About the end of 1932 he was said to have been deputed by Soviet Russia to work among the Indian Hajis and to have pledged himself to carry out a revolutionary scheme if Russia would render him assistance and prepare "a workable revolutionary scheme". He is said to have been naturalised as a Turkish subject. Iqbal Shaidai had tapped all sources of sedition in the past but though he appears to be disillusioned little reliance can be placed on him.

Description : Age about 40 years; height 5-6"; slim build; wheat complexion; long face; short beard and moustache; usually wears a long coat.