Aurang Shah, Syed, Dr., V. Manki, District Peshawar. Arrived at Seattle, U. S. A. in September 1916 whence he went to Petaluma, California. At the time of the split in the Ghadr Party he took sides with the late Ramchandra of Peshawar and visited the Mohammedans in different parts of California to collect money for Ramchandra's appeal. On the 9th May 1919 he was surreptitiously distributing Ghadr literature entitled "Appeal of India to the President of the United States", by Ramchandra among the students of the Stanford University. Four days after Ramchandra's murder he visited the convicted man in jail. He was a revolutionist who preached sedition among other Pathans. He attended a meeting of the Ghadr Party on 27th June 1924 and another meeting against the British Government on 6th July 1924 at Sacramento. He has not assisted the Ghadr Party since it fell into the hands of the Sikhs. In 1923 he was reported to have started an association called "Khair Khuahan-e-Afghan" in New York with the alleged object of spoiling Russo-Afghan relations. In September 1930 he was reported to be in Moscow trying to go to Afghanistan obviously with the object of stirring the tribes against Nadir Shah, but he was refused a visa by the Afghan Minister at Moscow, and returned to the U. S. A. He is said to be in Boston (Mass) and is said to have no connection with the Ghadr Party.

Description : Age 39 years; tall and lanky; round and rather big face; dark complexion; pitted face.