Service pays

Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan, became the prime minister of Pakistan

The Weekend feature, “The Mutiny through monuments” accords a prominent place to the grave of John Nicholson, a brigadier general in the British Army, who was killed in Delhi fighting against the mutineers. When the general was on his deathbed, the only person tending him was his faithful orderly, Muhammad Hayat Khan. Touched by Khan’s devotion, the dying Nicholson wrote a letter to the British authorities in his blood, eulogising Khan’s service and recommending that he be adequately rewarded after his (Nicholson) death.
 
The letter led to Khan’s rise to high positions later in life and, after him, of