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killed at the hands of the patriots, the reaction from Shairpore
and Bala Hisar, and Abdullah Khan Achakzis, battle and his
being wounded and ultimate martyrdom ; yet fuller details are
still obscure regarding his military progress. the real events
culminating, in his death his a tion's real appraisal from the point of
view of national urge and significance. If Abdullah Khan Achakzi is not
the only warrior of that arena, he is most decidedly the bravest of
those who prepared the nation for its release from foreign yoke, and
the one who prompted the peole of his country into awareness of
national independence, so that his name should be placed upon
the records of all those national movements for the regeneration of
the Afghans which Afghanistan saw during her struggles for independ-
ence, and that his name should be one of the first ones on the rolls.
Abdullah Khan Achakzai is the first man who led the national
movement on the second of November in 1841. A. D. It was he also
arranged the meeting at his house, where through his persuation
and goading that the nation realised her position under the thraldom
of the English and Shahshuja, and it was through his efforts, and by his
power of language and personal example that led his countrymen to rise
and claim that which belonged to Afghanistan. Inspite of the fact that
he had no more than three companions, they proceeded to the house
of Alexander Burnes, and after that fall of the Englishmen, from the
second November till the 11th November 1841 A.D. (17th to 27th of
Ramazan 1257. A.H.) he led the national movement. He and his com-
panions had no fear of the gun and the rifle, so that as an officer of the
national forces, as a commander of the peoples' forces and as a
national hero he battled with the mighty forces of Shairpore and
of the guns of the enemy every where, so that on the eleventh of Novem-
ber his causin fell to the bullet of the enemies of the Afghans, and
he himself was wounded during the advance. But he had
vindicated the honour of his people, for those plans which only ten
days ago were evolved in the privacy of his rooms, were made effective
by the sound and the use of gun and rifle. His words were not
empty words. They had a meaning, action was born from them, as
the result of which he was wounded and lay in his bed and finally
died and received the highest honour of martyrdom. But not till he
had carried forward the idea and view point of the patriotism of
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