Who is Shaikh Bashir Ahmad?

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He was an Ahmadi lawyer (also spelled as Sheikh Bashir Ahmad, and living in Lahore), in 1931, the Khalifa, Mirza Basheer ud Din Mahmud Ahmad and the All-India Kashmir Committee (AIKC) sent him to Kashmir to fight legal cases in support of the local Kashmiri-Muslims, stemming from the famous riots of July, 1931. On the 24th of Sep. and per the order of the Khalifa, who was also the President of the All India Kashmir Committee. A few years later he became a High Court Justice in Lahore, British-India (See Khan “The construction of the Ahmadiyya Identity”). Some other Ahmadi lawyers who were sent to Kashmir are as follows, Chauhdry Muhammad Yusuf Khan, Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad Mazhar and Chauhdry Asadullah Khan (the younger brother of Zafrulla Khan), and several others. Remarkably, Dost Muhammad Shahid has recorded the details of hundreds of such cases that were acquitted or overturned due to the efforts of the AIKC’s legal team and counsel throughout the early 1930’s (See Khan “The construction of the Ahmadiyya Identity”).

In 1947, per the order of his Khalifa, he presented Ahmadiyya as non-Muslims to the Punjab Boundary Commission, thus, the Gurdaspur district was given to India, Kashmir was also lost. His name is also spelled as Sheikh Bashir Ahmad.

The Civil and Military Gazette (of Dec-19-1949) reports that in terms of the Radcliffe Commission, the Qadiani-Ahmadi lawyers (Shaikh Bashir Ahmad and Zafrullah Khan), Qadiani’s wanted Gurdaspur to be a Qadiani state and not given to either Pakistan or India.

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He is sent to Kashmir by the Khalifa and the All India Kashmir Committee (AIKC) to help poor Kashmiri’s fight their cases vs. the Maharaja (See Khan “The construction of the Ahmadiyya Identity”).
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1934-1935
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/07/26/judgement-of-mr-g-d-khoslas-session-judge-gurdaspur-india-6-june-1935-syed-attaullah-shah-bokhari-appeal-case/

He helped the Ahmadiyya Movement get the writings of Judge Khosla expunged (see ROR of Dec-1935). He is mentioned in the ROR of July-1935.
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1936

This Week in History: 12-18 November

12 November 1936: The High Court gave its verdict in favour of Ahmadis regarding a dispute of a mosque located in Koocha Chabuk Sawaran in Lahore. The case had been pending in courts for the last three to four years (since 1932). In the High Court, a lawyer, Sheikh Bashir Ahmad Sahib, presented very strong arguments in his discussion. And the decision was made in favour of the Jamaat. Syed Dilawar Shah Bukhari was appointed imam of this mosque by the Jamaat. (Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat, Vol. 7, p. 333)
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In Jan of 1944, The 2nd Khalifa, Mirza Basheer ud Din Mahmud Ahmad officially claims to be the Musleh Maud, he is at the house of Sheikh Bashir Ahmad, on 13 Temple Rd, Lahore, British-India.

In March of 1944, the 2nd Khalifa’s wife died of heart failure at Lahore. Syeda Maryam died mysteriously on March 5, 1944 at Lady Wellington Hospital at Lahore (See ROR of April 1944). In the ROR of April-1944, the 2nd Khalifa claims to have had revelations back in 1931-1932 wherein he saw her on an operating table in Delhi and had died of heart failure (a total lie), this had never been published before. The 2nd Khalifa also claimed that Sheikh Bashir Ahmad (a famous Qadiani lawyer) was there (pointing to how he stayed at his house every time he came to Lahore. The 2nd Khalifa reported that his brother, Mirza Bashir Ahmad was in Lahore and he actually reported that Syedah Maryam had died of heart failure.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1947–July/August, Punjab Boundary Commission, The Radcliffe Line

The Khalifa appoints Sheikh Bashir Ahmad to represent Ahmadiyya before the Commission. When the Commission started hearing the arguments, the Khalifatul Masih himself moved to Lahore and rendered assistance to the Muslim League both by his advice and by procuring the services of a foreign expert on questions that the Commission would have to take into account in making its report. As was expected the Commission, which was composed of four High Court judges, two Muslim and two non-Muslim, was not able to present a unanimous or majority report and the determination of the boundary was left to the umpire, Sir Cyril (later
Lord) Radcliffe. His award came as a profound shock to the Muslims and particularly to the Community, as under it several Muslim majority areas contiguous to the rest of Pakistan were excluded from Pakistan and were included in India. The greater part of the Gurdaspur District, in which Qadian was situated, was also included within India despite a majority of Muslims in the District (see Fazl e Omar). Ahmadi’s specifically represented themselves as Non-Muslims, thus, the Gurdaspur district was given to India and thus Kashmir was lost forever.

Syed Muhammad Ahmad reports that in Aug-1947, he took vital documents from Qadian to Lahore (via airplane) for Sheikh Bashir Ahmad, these were docs from the 2nd Khalifa.
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1949

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Kashmir_agitation