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to march towards Jaji where Sardar Shah
Mahmud Khan was busy in collecting a
lashkar.
There was no time to be lost. The
Bacha had at his disposal motor cars and
lorries and Gardez was only a day's journey
from Kabul. The Marshal left Shah Wali
Khan in Gardez and himself at the head
of his lashkar marched towards Logar. He
had with him only two guns, four machine-
guns and eleven boxes of cartridges. The
first night he passed at Safed Qillah—the
White Fort—at the entrance of the Tirah
Pass. In the morning Zalmae Khan, at the
head of his Mangali lashkar, left for Logar.
On the 24th of April at 9-30 in the
morning the Marshal and his brother left
for Charkh, a well-known place in Logar.
He reached the top of the pass at about
two in the afternoon. Here he was informed
that some of the Bacha's men were encamped
in Darvesh and more could be found in
the suburbs of Bedak or Charkh. At about
seven in the evening he reached Charkh. Mir
Ghaus-ud-Din, the commander of the
vanguard, on the pretext that he was not
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