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- 135 - FATEH JUNG AND SHAHPORE. The following is an extract from a book entitled TOFFATUL HABIB by Mulla Qasar Mohamed: Volume Two; pages 265,266. "The English ostensibly started from Kandahar and Jalalabad to avenge the murdered men of their ranks, and to vindicate their promise to Kabul, so that the name of their government may not be besmirched, or that they sent out the gallant Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan with the ruse of escorting the dead body of General Elphinstone, and then to place him upon the throne and then return to whence they came. Their future activities, however, showed as to what was in their minds. In any case, these English converged from two directions upon Kabul, and when they reached near Kabul, Vazir Mohamed Akbar Khan, sensing what the English might possibly have in their minds proceeded towards Bamyan. When the Vizir had left the city, the English troops entered Kabul from two directions. For the second time prince Fateh Jung was placed upon the throne, and his Vizir was Ghulam Mohamed Khan son of Shair Mohamed Khan Mukhtarud-Doulah. Nayab Aminullah Khan proclaiming a Holy War took his stand at Char Deh and getting the help of the people of Kohistan raised the standard of revolt. The English knowing of this, sent a column of their men under the leadership of Prince Shahpore to suppress the insurrection at Charikar. This force repulsed the patriots and set fire to Istalif. Fateh Jung, however, seeing the dissatisfaction of the people and being distracted with it all, agreed to renounce the claim to the throne and indicated his desire to accompany the English troops to India. The Prince Shahpore was offered the unfortunate crown, but he too, noticing that the star of the Sadozai rule had really set, sat on a luckless throne, and the people treated him with contempt which he deserved, till his own well-wishers turned away from him.