Zafar Hassan, Muhajir, son of the late Hafiz Azim-ud-Din, Kucha Qazian, Karnal. In February 1915, when a student of the B. A. class in the Lahore Government College, he fled across the border with the other Mujahid students. He was listed as a "Lieutenant Colonel" in M. Obaidullah’s (a Pan-Islamist, now staying in Mecca) "Army of God" and during the Afghan war of 1919 he was at Chamarkand, whence, together with Obaidullah he issued a number of highly inflammatory leaflets inciting Indians to murder and treason. These bore his signature as "Assistant Administrator of the provisional Government of India". Later on he is said to have worked for some time with the late King Nadir Shah (then General Nadir Khan). About the end of 1922 he left Kabul with M. Obeidullah, Muhammad Iqbal Shaidai (M-47) and other and made his way to Moscow where he became intimate with Soviet officials and imbibed communist ideas. He attended the session ofthe fifth Congress ofthe Communist International and became a great admirer of Lenin and his teachings. He later returned to Kabul where he was used as an intermediary by the notorious Indian Communist M. N. Roy (now in jail) for correspondence with Professor Ghulam Hussain, the Lahore communist. He went to Constantinople towards the end of 1924, whence in April 1925 he and M. Obeidullah jointly issued a highly objectionable Urdu pamphlet entitled "Programme of the Mahabharat Society". He was then described as a dangerous man who is known to be in favour of violent revolution. Although professing himself a nationalist and not a Bolshevik he had associated with Roy and other communists and it was felt that he would not scruple to assist any party which attempted to create revolt in India. In 1928 he was reported to be attached to the staff ofthe Turkish newspaper "Vakit" and also was acting as the local correspondent of certain Indian nationalist papers. He assumed Turkish nationality in 1928. He was reported to be occasionally meeting the Indian Military student Teja Singh Sutantar (T-8). About 1930 he was reported to be in touch with Sikh revolutionaries in Constantinople, Kabul and America. At about that time he was doing a year's military service in the Turkish Army. In April 1931 he was reported to be intending to migrate to Moscow with the assistance of Muhammad Ali, alias Sepassi (notorious communist). About the middle of 1931 he was reported to be trying to secure a military appointment under the late King Nadir Shah with the assistance of Allah Nawaz Khan. He seems, however, to have been made an officer in the Turkish Army in or about October 1931, and in March 1933 was serving on the Syrian frontier.

Description : Age about 33 years; medium height; thin build; wheat complexion.