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سرزنش و ملامت کردن
treachery, rebuked him soundly. A fight
took place between them and their followers
جنگ joined in the affray. As a result, both the
leaders were killed. Ali Ahmad Jan soon
found himself involved in a bloody conflict.
His magazine was looted, and he himself with
his two sons had to fly for life, as some
men were anxious to take them prisoner and
hand them over to Bacha in the hope of
obtaining the proclaimed rewards.
Ali Ahmad Jan made straight for the
Laghman Valley. Here he fell in the hands
of a nomadic tribe, and if some of the local
tribes had not come to his rescue, he would
have been taken to Kabul. After his
release, he left for the Kunar Valley, and
thence after many hardships, he at last
reached British India through the Mohmand
territory and having stayed for a few days
at Peshawar, proceeded to Kandahar to meet
Amanullah Khan.
After Ali Ahmad Jan's flight to Pesha-
war, the tribal feuds in the east took the
form of a very serious civil war and this
state continued till the arrival of Sardar
Mohammad Hashim Khan, a brother of the
present King, who through his influence and
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