Writer Mod Date & Time St PARTITION: tape 8 255MODEM 255MODEM May 12 07:39 R* TAPE 8 Side A AM J AD HUSAIN - bureau chief in Lahore of the 'Muslim'; family from near Amritsar; brought up in Lahore and working there in railway admin in 47; int'd in Lahore - 11 Oct 1995 4 - born in Amristar district; but in 47 a Lahore-based family 35 - imp of Lahore resol'n of 1940; 'act it was that resoln which convinced me that that obj is about to be achieved, not before that' 60 - studied at a mainly H college - and some pol tensions there; got a job as clerk at railway HQ in Lahore - but encountered resistance from non-Ms 112 - 'one event I can recall; ... I didn't see himself, but he [Master Tara Singh}, but he was standing right outside ... what's now the Ass b'dg, waving his kirpan, and asking for the blood of Ms ... who wanted Pak; that I bel was the beg [of the partn viol] when he gave a call for murder and bloodshed' 136 - [in 47] 'I was living in an area that was predom M; but every night, we wer afraid that there'd be an attack on us; so we used to be on house tops all night, watching whether a attack was coming or not, that was a perpetual feeling ... we thought an attack cd come at any time ... Ss were more org'd, Hs were more org'd, Ms were they were not org'd ... so we were really in a state of terror, altho living in a M maj area .... no attack came' 155 - saw distant areas on fire 190 - [on ind day] 'act when the anno came on the radio, my father had the holy Quran in his hand, and all the family mbrs around him, and he sd you must take the oath on this that you'll be loyal to Pak; I still rem'r that every mbr of the family took that oath ...’ 205 - 'partn was the only way left; I don't think any alt was poss' - except perhaps the Cabinet Mission plan 247 > in Goa at time of Indian attack, and taken as PoW 267 - refers to Gordon Martin (not by name) 307 - no desire to go to e Punjab; ''I have forgotten about it; this is our home, this is our homeland, we got it eventually' to 315 - ENDS [on side B - extraneous material not relevant to partition]