 On 26 October, he gave a detailed interview to the Lahore-based daily "Civil & Military Gazette", where he described the `mad orgy of Dogra violence' against unarmed Muslims in the Jammu province.While in Lahore, on 21 October 1947, Reddy received a phone call from Lt. Col. Alavi, the Public Relations Officer of the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, stating that the Ramkot post of Kashmir was being attacked that night and the news should be published as coming from the Azad Kashmir Headquarters in Palandri.He was also told that all further news of the invasion would come from the Rawalpindi headquarters and the practice of a Palandri dateline should be maintained.