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-- 119 -- The movement that reared its head on the second of November 1841. A. D, on the part of a few in the city of Kabul, and which infousd a national feeling of up-rising, has no parallel in the annals of Afghanistan in regard to the determination and steadfastness of national cause. In as much as it was a movement which gave a remarkable national urge, and inspiration, it should always be recalled to minds. Time was when one hundred and eleven years ago, in this Country oppression and coercion had been the vogue in Afghanistan at the hands of Mcnaughton, Shahshuja and Burnes. From Shairpore to Balahissar, there were "ruins" upon which cruel hands operated. The English forces held the points such as Siah Sung, the cantonment of Shairpore and in other parts of the city, and another group, named as the artillery troops of Shahshuja was stationed at Bala Hisar. Nizamud-Doullah, the traitor, was a man who worked as a liaison between Shahshuja and Mnaughton, and, of course, this man's soul had been so deadend that he thought of nothing but his own interests, and in that quest if the nation was subjected to disgrace and ruin, it would, have mattered, nothing to him. This year, 1841, was the third year of the reign of Shahshuja, and this date should be considered as the third year of the disgrace and decline of the life of the nation at the hands of the aggressors-the English. Those, who had reared the nefarious designs of treachery towards their nation, were, of course, well content with their ill-gotten proceeds. Conditions were, however, deteriorating ; for instance ; the land revenue was being re-assessed and at extortionate rates forced military service, the apportioning of salaries to the Ghilzai leaders, the excesses of the troopers, and the deporting of influencial leaders of the people to India, coupled with, lack of respect for the rights of the individual absence of security and much else which contributes to the discord and a state of lawlessness was let loose amongst the people of this country, and in these unbearable circumstances, the nation was making preparations to rend asunder these chains of suppression and cruelty of the foreigners and their protege-Shahshuja-at the earliest possible moment. As everyone knows, a few people whose names adorn the pages of our national history,possessing feelings of love and esteem for