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not be forgotten. The warriors killed, on the outburst of
that war, and during the ultimate settlement, some of the
run-away and fleeing officers of the English between Kabul
and Gharikar. After that large numbers of them took part
in battles-many thousands of them-at Shairpore, and on the
hights of Bibi Maro. General Pollock, in order to take revenge
from those men, set fire to the beautiful village of Istalif
through Mecastle in 1842. A. D. In place of avenging himself
upon the fighters, he burned down the innocent walls and
doors of a village.
Towards the fourth year of the English occupation of
Afghanistan a great movement for national independence was launched
on 2nd November 1841. A. D. which fought the imperialist designs
of the aggressors. From that date onwards the great movement
grew in tempo, with the result that fighting took place at such
scattered places as the hillside of Bibi Maro, Shairore, in the
heart of the city of Kabul, in the neighbourhood of Charikar,
Wardak, Khurd Kabul and Ghazni, till at last a treaty was
signed between the leaders of the nation and the English in the
winter of 1842. A. D. and the capital of the Afghan kingdom
was evacuated. Unfortunately, as was anticipated in the terms of
the treaty, the whole of Afghanistan was not evacuated with
the removal of the English forces from Kabul. At two important
Afghan towns, Jalalabad and Kandahar the forces of the English
continued under Generals Sale and Nott. They gave verbal promises
and still continued to make endeavours to strengthen their military
position as soon as a relief force arrived from India to help them.
During the course of this time, Shahshuja was assassinated and his
son Fateh Jung sat on the throne at Bala Hisar. But the hope
of getting the throne for themselves, and the struggle for personal
gain that had entered into the minds of many leaders at the
time, began to weaken the national resistance, and the action which
had sprung up with such good promise and hope, and had
expressed itself for the benefit of the country, began to deteriorate
with the result that disturbances arose, that the beseiged English
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