Was reading about recently died Hyderabad Nizam Mukharram Jah & found this interesting part of history which nobody wants to tell.

Following the partition of India, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the then reigning Nizam and Mukarram Jah's grandfather, wished to remain independent,
much against the wishes of the local populace.

Pakistan actively supported the Nizam, hoping it could be the third subregion of Pakistan — East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was the second.

Anticipating a military action from India, Osman Ali Khan sought arms and weapons from
Pakistan. To procure the weapons, Nizam's finance minister, Moin Nawaz Jung, transferred a sum of £1,007,490 and nine shillings to the account of Pakistan's High Commissioner, Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, in National Westminster Bank, London.

Thanks to Operation Polo, Hyderabad
was integrated into Indian Union in 1948.

During the military operations, Mukarram escaped to Karachi with his mother Princess Durrushehvar, brother Muffakhan Jah. The princess and her sons moved to a suite at the Savoy Hotel in London, where they lived for the next two years.
In 1954, Osman Ali Khan moved the UK court seeking to release the money deposited with the Pakistani high commission. But Pakistan refused to oblige and invoked sovereign immunity. This meant the case could not proceed further.

Osman Ali Khan claimed that his minister
transferred money without his approval.
Pakistan refused his contention and said that the weapons were bought and dropped off in Hyderabad by a British pilot, Frederick Sidney Cotton, in 35 trips from Karachi and thus, the money was payment for services rendered.
(Thanks to Godse, if he hadn't eliminated MKG, there would've been no Operation Polo)

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