{"book":"adl1197","page":175,"text":"-156-\nso close was the co-operation of these two young warriors, that\nthose events which were considered as most dangerous and\nimportant, were all entrusted to Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan. This co-\noperation lasted tiil Afghanistan was rid of the aggressors, and Amir\nDost Mohamed Khan once again arrived in Afghanistan in the\nmonth of Ramazan of the year 1258. A. H. (1842. A. D. ) and\nin 1259. A. H. occupied the throne of Afghanistan.\n\nWith the disappearance of the English aggressors from Afgha-\nnistan the first phase of the activities of Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan\nterminated. The return of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan, however,\npersuaded him along with Sirdar Mohamed Zaman Khan to bid for\nthe Emirate of Afghanistan.\n\nSirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan, seeing the whole hearted support\nthat he had all along received from Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan,\ngave promise to his cousin and companion of many battles that he\n(Sultan Ahmed Khan) shall receive the governership of the northern\nregions of the Hindu-Kush. Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan was content\nwith this offer, but in effect he thought of greater things for him\nself. When, however, Amir Dost Mohamed Khan sat on the throne\nof Afghanistan, he heard, of course, of Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan's-\nambitions, and quite naturally did not like another rival. It is also\nrelated that this difficulty was due to some personal motives which\nwere further inflamed by the intriguers at the court. Sirdar Sultan\nAhmed Khan's point of view was that as he had performed national\nservice, he obviously deserved his reward. But very probably the\nreason of the animosity between him and the Amir was due to the\nforeign policy of the country, for the Sirdar did not consider the\nattitude of the Amir towards the English as desirable, for the Sir-\ndar had, different ideas as to what the English wanted in pursuit\nof their imperialist policy in the east. In any case discord arose\nbetween the Amir and the Sirdar. A letter written by Sirdar\nSultan Ahmed Khan to the King of Persia was captured by Sirdar\nSultan Mohamed Khsn-another brother of Amir Dost Mohamed\nKhan-and this occasioned the flight of Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan\nand his taking refuge at the Qajjar court.\n\nThose were the times when the Persian king showed interest in\nthe claims of the descendent of Vazir Yar Mohamed Khan Alakozay, and","chars":2318,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00175.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/175","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/175","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1197/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1197_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}