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{ SEPTEMBER 22 1948 provided by Istanbul Sehir University Repository HYDERABAD QUIET UNDER RULE

SURRENDER AFTER 4* DAYS’ FIGHTING From Our Correspondent Four and a half days after the from it, and after the Indian commander, Indian Army had crossed the Hydera­ Lieutenant-General Rajendrasinhji, had broadcast a call to the Hyderabad com­ bad borders from all points of the mander, Major-General el Edroos, to lay compass fighting in Hyderabad down arms, as “ the Indian forces are ended officially on Friday evening at now so situated that they can enter 5 o’clock, when a “ cease fire ” order Hyderabad at will from several direc­ by his Exalted Highness the Nizam tions ” and in the interests of humanity to his troops came into effect. and to save unnecessary and useless loss of life. This followed a broadcast by Mir The Nizam himself broadcast later on Laik Ali, the Hyderabad Prime Mini­ Friday saying that he had instructed the ster announcing his own and his representatives of his Ministry now in Ministry’s resignation, and the Paris not to press the appeal they were sending of a message by the Nizam to presenting to the United Nations on Mr. Rajagopalachari, the Indian behalf of Hyderabad, as he wished to Governor-General, in which the former open a new chapter of friendliness with said he had ordered that Indian troops India. should be allowed free entry into The Nizam added he had told Mr. Secunderabad and undertook to disband Rajagopalachari that he had taken the the (Muslim volunteers). political situation into his own hands and Major-General J. N. Choudhury, the was sorry he had not done so earlier, Indian column commander, received on and that he wished his people to live in Saturday the formal surrender of the “ integrated harmony ” with the people of Hyderabad Army from Major-General el India. He ordered his subjects to remain Edroos at a point five miles outside calm and preserve communal peace. Secunderabad. Afterwards Indian troops entered Secunderabad. The whole of Hyderabad State was later SECURITY COUNCIL put under military administration, with Major-General Choudhury as military DISCUSSION governor. INTERIM MINISTRY SESSION POSTPONED Reports from Hyderabad city say that The Security Council which met for all is quiet, that the Nizam remains in the second time on Monday to examine his palace and is a free agent, that the the Hyderabad dispute, could do little former premier, Mir Laik Ali, and mem­ more than adjourn until the situation is bers of his Cabinet are under house further clarified, though not before some of its members had shown that they arrest, and that Syed Kasim Razvi, leader were not disposed to regard the cessation of the Razakar movement, has been arrested by Hyderabad troops and of hostilities as the end of the matter. handed over to the Indian army by whom The Hyderabad delegation were in an he is now held. unhappy position since their leader, Nawab Moin Nawaz Jung, as Foreign It is reliably learned here that the Minister in the unseated Government, no Government of India has no intention of longer held office, and their spokesman, deposing the Nizam or ending his dynasty Zahir Ahmed, permanent official, having in spite of popular clamour for this. received no direct instruction from the Instead, it means to instal an interim Nizam, asked for a postponement. Ministry consisting of representatives of public opinion as soon as possible, and military rule will probably end within PAKISTAN MINISTER'S a few weeks. Then the Government of India will CONCERN press on with all speed with the prepara­ The Pakistan Foreign Minister, Sir tion of electoral rolls on the basis of Zafrullah Khan, commenting on the news adult franchise (which may take three or from Hyderabad at a Press conference in four months) to be followed by the elec­ London, said: “ The case of Hyderabad tion of a constituent assembly which, it is causes me considerable disquiet as to hoped, will come into being by the middle future relations between Pakistan and of next year. India. If genuine differences are only to The decision by Hyderabad to surrender be settled by armed force, how much is came when Indian armoured columns, peace between the two Dominions worth, closing in on the capital city from both and how much is international peace east and west, were less than 40 miles worth ? ”

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