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plundered the Government offices and set
the buildings on fire. Other discontented
tribes emboldened تحریص و تشجیع by their success joined
hands with them and their numbers swelled.
More outbreaks occurred in other quarters.
Members of the Grand Assembly and men
of religion were not slow to take advantage
of the situation to avenge the indignities
they had suffered at the hands of the King
and his corrupt courtiers. Exaggerated
stories of the King's extravagance, his self-
willedness and his trespasses تجاوز، تخطی نموده against the
laws of Islam were circulated all around.
The result was that within a very short
time, King Amanullah Khan lost all the
military posts of the Eastern Province.
Torkham and Dakka, the Afghan custom
posts near the Khyber Pass, were plundered
and the soldiers there disarmed. Not satis-
fied with this and realizing the weakness
of local officers and the ignorance of the
Central Government, the rebels advanced
boldly upon Jalalabad, which they easily
besieged. After plundering the Government
offices outside the city walls and burning
down most of them, they encompassed the
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