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— 134 — snd when Shahpore was out on that errand a battle was precipitated between his men and those of Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan, and when the prince retreated to Bala Hisar, battles continued between the men of Bala Hisar and those in the streets of Kabul. The rival parties proposed that this street fighting should cease, and that the Contention should be settled on the heights of the neighbouring Maranjan. Here the forces of Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan were having the worse of it, when Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan, who having been repulsed by General Sale at Jalalabad, returned just in time at Kabul with three hundred horsemen, and as the possibilities of the return of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan from India were now bright, together with the force of Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan repulsed the forces of Fateh Jung, and beseiged him for forty days in Bala Hisar, and in the meantime opened negotiations with Nayab Aminullah Khan. It was ultimately decided that Fateh Jung should remain King and Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan should become the Minister of the Realm, so that the title of Vizir had been affixed to Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan from that date. This continued till Fateh Jung started communicating with General Pollock, and with the order of the Vizir was imprisoned. From the prison, Fateh Jung escaped to Jalalabad and took refuge with General Sale, and Pollock started for Kabul with his column. When Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan had in the meantime gone to Bamyan, Pollock arrived in Kabul, and on the 18th. Shaban 1258. A-H. (16th. September 1842. A.D.) Fateh Jung was again re-installed on the throne of Kabul with the help of the English forces. The only person who at that time faced the English was Nayab Aminulla Khan Logari. He had dug trenches on the mountains of Istalif. The period of reign of Fateh Jung on this second occasion, however, did not last long, for after only one month the English forces at Kabul moved out along with those in Kandahar. Now Fateh Jung finding himself without a protector, was very anxious about his safety and feared the wrath of the nation, thus he left the crown and accompanied the Englisn columns, so that with his going, the country was purged from his presence and that of the foreigners.