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Vais Khan to avenge his grievances. The Persians, caught unaware, could not offer any resistance, and were consequently killed to a man.
In the evening Mir Vais Khan, accompanied by his friends and followers, in the garb of Persians, approached Kandahar. The guards on duty, taking them for Gurgin and his retinue, opened the gate. The Afghans first of all made themselves masters of the gates, and then, sword in hand, fell upon the bewildered garrison from all sides. Few could escape from this wholesale slaughter. Kandahar was rescued from foreign yoke.
Mir Vais Khan (1708—1715).—Mir Vais Khan took the reins of Government of Kandahar in his own hands without assuming the royal title. He was content to be called the Mushar (chief) of his people. Subsequent Persian expeditions failed to recapture Kandahar, and Mir Wais was left in full possession of the whole province, which he ruled admirably for a period of seven years (from 1708 to 1715). He died in 1715, and was buried at Kohkran, not far from Kandahar, where his tomb stands to this day.
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