GAYA: Mr. Mahboob Ahmad Warsi accompanied by Mr. Mobarak Nawab, Joint Secretary, Gaya District Muslim League, visited Tekari on November 7th where the Sub Divisional Officer Suddar had also gone for local inspection in connection with a dispute relating to a Muslim graveyard. It is alleged that two plots of land which have been used as graveyards by the Muslims and are recorded as such in Survey records are now claimed by some Hindus of the locality as their private land.
Messrs. Mahboob Ahmad Warsi and Mobarak Nawab succeeded in pacifying the Muslims and it is hoped that nothing will happen from their side so long as the case is pending. It is earnestly hoped that the local Hindu leaders will also try to see that the Hindus of the locality do not take up an aggressive attitude.
[Meanwhile, as reported from London,] “There are sections of opinion which also do not recognise India’s changing position in the Commonwealth,” declares the “Times” today [Nov 13] in an editorial commenting on racial discrimination against Indian’s in South Africa … The Natal Ordinance affects only a small percentage of the Indian community...”
Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2019
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