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In 1950, Hyderabad's former Prime Minister vanished from house arrest and turned up in Karachi. Nobody could work out how he'd done it, until a bearded CID officer the press called the "Sherlock Holmes of Hyderabad" took the case. Thread 1/24
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Majid, Daneesh. The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day. HarperCollins, 2025. Tulasi, Moses. "Mir Laiq Ali, the Captain Who Ensured the Sinking of Hyderabad Ship." Siasat Daily, September 17, 2021. siasat.com/mir-laiq-ali-the-….

Mir Laiq Ali, the captain who ensured the sinking of Hyderabad ship

Of all the political absurdities leading to the forceful annexation of Hyderabad state to Indian Union, nothing perhaps is more perplexing than the appointment of an engineer-turned-businessman with…

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"When the Last Prime Minister of Hyderabad Deccan Fled from India to Karachi." Worldys News, worldysnews.com/when-the-las….
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In following years, Mir Laiq remained connected to political and diplomatic circles, continuing to engage with Pakistan’s public life. Rasool Khan wrote several of his cases, both solved and unsolved, in his memoir Saragh-i-Saragh-i-Tirja— “following the traces”. 23/24
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We often think of Partition as something that happened in the North, in 1947, and ended there. But the new border kept being crossed long after, sometimes by a former Prime Minister in disguise. And in Hyderabad, it took a Sherlock to follow him. 24/24
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