There was no edition of Dawn on this day. The following excerpt is from the previous day’s paper.

(LETTER) The news of repression in Gwalior has done very much to strain my patience…Persons conversant with the past and the present policy of Gwalior State towards its Muslim subjects are most disgusted by the Gwalior of today. The recent repressive measures adopted against the only representative Anjuman of Gwalior Muslims are Himalayan proofs, if proof be needed, of depriving the citizens of the right of lawful expression. Issued at the suggestion of ministers and other high officials, the order of the Gwalior magistrate externing Mr. Manzaar-i-Alam from the State and directing the Working Committee members and office bearers of the Anjuman-e-Islam Reyasat Gwalior to keep aloof from the previously permitted Annual Session seems to be devoid of all commonsense and propriety. The Anjuman deserves to be congratulated for treating this order with such scornful respect as it very rightly deserved.

I have reasons ... to believe that the Gwalior state authorities, consider their own cooked up … excuses quite sufficient for striking at the fundamental rights of citizenship…

Yours, etc.

Shakir Husain Khan, President, Muslim University Muslim League.

Published in Dawn, March 9th, 2019