مجموعة ٣٧/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. وضع الرعايا البريطانيين والأشخاص الخاضعين للحماية البريطانيين بموجب قانون الجنسية الفارسي." [و‎‎٥‎٥‎٢] (١١١٦/١١٠٨)

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1 British Legation.
Tehran*
j October 23rd, 1923*
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I have the honour to bring to jour notice the fact that a
number of persons from the Kurram district who have passed
through Afghanistan to Meshed on pilgrimage, arrive in Tehran
and request that they be granted papers to enable them to proceed
to their homes via Kerbela and Karachi.
In some instances these Karramis are in possession of
letters from the Givil, or discharge certificates from the
Military Authorities, which support their statements that they
are British Indian subjects. In such cases I have issued them
with emergency certificates.
In many cases however these Kurramis have no papers at all
except a liahdari issued by the Afghan Government,which describes
the holder as an Afghan subject. They state moreover that the
Afghan Authorities in these instances have confiscated their
Pilgrim passes issued to them by the Political Agent, Murrain.
I beg leave to reauest that in future such natives of the
Kurram, who proceed on pilgrimage to Persia and 'Iraq via i
Afghanistan, may oe issued with an official paper from some
competent authority which shall definitely state that the bearer |
is a British Indian subject, to whose re-entry into India there
is no objection. • ouch passes should bear the bearer*s photograph.
It might be of assistance to such natives proceeding on
pilgrimage via Afghanistan if it were explained to them,before
starting, that there is a British Legation at Kabul which doubt
less would help them on the production of adequate proof that
they are British Indian subjects.
I have, etc.,
ad. Percy Loraine*
The Secretary to the
Government of India in vhe
Foreign and Political department,
Delhi.