{"book":"adl1197","page":92,"text":"- 79 -\nrealm; so that Ranjit Singh took the beautiful Valley of Kashmir:\nwith slight difficulty from Jabbar Khan. After Jabbar Khan, the first\ngovernor of Kashmire was one named Moti Ram. The Sikh Maharaja\ntook so much courage out of the discord that he even prepetuated\naggression on the territories right of the river Indus ; and wretled\nDera Ghazi Khan from of the hands of Nawab Mohamed Zaman\nKhan. The unfortunate fact was that at this time the Sirdars were\nin conflict amongst themselves in various parts of the country. Till\ngradually the Sikhs continued to proceed on their aggression and\nreached so far west as the neighbourhood of Attock and indeed to\nthe lower reaches of the river Kabul. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan,\nwho due to the anxiety of his money that he had near Killa Majina,\nwhen faced with the Sikhs accepted defeat; and ultimately died on\nhis way to Kabul. All his fortune was bequethed to his son Habi-\nbullah Khan.\n\nWhen the days of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan were coming\nto a close, he revealed the sources of all his fortune, and took a\npromise from his son, Habibullah Khan, that after his death, he\n(his son) will spend all that money in a war of revenge against the\nthe Sikhs. He was, ofcourse, aware that his son was not competent\nto rule, Sirdar Mohamed Azoem Khan placed his son under the\nthe tutelage of his unble Nawab Khan.\n\nA time when Ayub Shah, and Sirdar Habibullah Khan-one a\nking and another the son of a Sirdar-came face to face at Kabul.\nEach considered himself the ineritor of his father. The \"king\" was,\nas we know that puppet, who was set up on the throne by the fa-\nther of Habibullah Khan. On the death of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem\nKhan a curious situation obtained at Kabul. All the Barakzai Bro-\nthers, whether in Pashawar or at Kandahar anxiously watched the\nturn of events. All of them, quite naturally, were intessely, interes-\nted in all future developments; because power and riches-of Ayub\nShah and of Habibullah Khan-had now centered at one and the\nsame citedal; but the ultimate future was completely unknown as to\nwho will secure what.","chars":2087,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00092.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/92","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/92","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."}}