{"book":"adl1197","page":187,"text":"-168-\nWith the permission of the prince, therefore, two heads of the clans namely Anko Khan Bamizai and Islam Khan assassinated the great Vazir, who had served so well, at a place called Siah Aab in the western portion of the Bakwah desert, together with his two sons and two of his nephews. As a result of this shameful action, and prior to ascending to the throne, a large number of the leaders of the clans were prejudiced against the prince. When Prince Timour reached Kandahar, his younger brother Prince Sulaiman very gladly vacated the royal place in favour of his elder brother from Herat. A number of the leaders of the clans were left at Kandahar-Kandahar as the center of administration-and Timour started towards Kabul. Inspite of this his antagonists were not quiet and made a pact around Abdul Khaliq Khan, the uncle of Ahmed Shah, and attacked Kabul. As a rasult battles were fought and at last Timour Shah was secure upon the throne.\n\nTHE LAST DAYS OF AMIR DOST\nMOHAMED KHAN.\n\nARTICLE FORTY FORTH\n\nOne of the reasons of rivalry and animosity of the Barakzais and the Saduzais was that Herat remained in the hands of weak princes of Saduzais and the Alokozais, and their weakness compelled them often to seek the help of the Qajjars of Persia. During these turbulent times because one of the events had assumed high importance, (Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan had established a rulership at Herat), the last year, of the reign of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan was spent in solving the Herat question, and the reduction of Herat was the last act of his reign which gave him satisfaction at his death-bed, after which he died within two weeks.\n\nDuring the winter of 1277, A.H. when Amir Dost Mohamed Khan was as usual at Jalalabad, he received a letter from Saifullah Khan,","chars":1773,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00187.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/187","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/187","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."}}