"أيام ثيم ولَّت" [و‎‎٣‎٢] (٢٤٨/٦٣)

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CHAPTER 6
Gin and Garlands
In
October 1936 came
the post of
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Within a few weeks, the battery was to
active service. This was a sad blow,as
all been waiting for - the chance to put
we had honed for so many years, and to
against a real enemy.
move into Waziristan on
it was the chance we had
into practice the skills
fire our guns in anger
- h or C as Se th 0 p f mnH e p diSP h te wa ! simp,e - A young Pathan had abducted
or as the modern phrase has it kidnapped - a Hindu girl from
induced to mumble what must have been to her
Arabic phrase "La Ileh il-Allah wa Mohammed
technically made her a muslim, and then been
^.' nc P mprel ? ensible ceremony, to her
Bannu, who had been
an incomprehensible
rasul Allah" which
'married', in an
abductor and spirited off into theVlds o? Waziristan
of rd ni S 'ra?sed UP °? ^'i 00 , 3 ' reli g 1ous leader, known as the Faqir
^ sed a tribal lashkar to defend the rinht nf tho
man to keep his bride The on 1 i t i i h / 9h , f the youn 9
♦- .u i ,ne political authorities decreed aft-or*
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exercise^fn mn° t \ scover * but the army benefited by a useful
won the M.C. warfare, and the officer who took my place
I'Ced^to :ake SP a ee s d ta n r 9 t 0 In t0 the . f ' esbpp ts of Rajputana, where
which" would enable me o p C i q a U v lr ’a n9 nart kn0W,ed ^ *" d ^ills
confrontations in the future. preventing such
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