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- 139 - house of the English commercial attache Alexander Burnes, burnt down his house and killed him as also his brother Charles Burnes, and a great national movement was set on foot at Kabul. This struggle was continued in the shape of the battles which took place between the Afghan nationalists and the English in such places as Shair Pore, hillsides of Bibi Maro and etc, so that on the eleventh day of this national up rising Abdullah Khan Achakzai received myrtyrdom and the day after Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan arrived from Bokhara and joined in the battle. During the four years of the English occupation of Afghan territory, the people did not accept the English protegs-Shahshuja-as the king, and for the time being had considered Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan as a ruler. Even at that time of political vaccillations Nayab Aminullah Khah was regarded as the Nayab of Second Status, or indeed, as a Nayabul Saltana. In the Treaty as signed between the retreating English and the leaders of the nation-a treaty which was not kept by the English-and is a very important document relating to Afghan history (First January 1842. A. D.) signed at Kabul. Nayab Aminullah Khan has been spoken of in the document as (The Second Status Nayab of High Honour His Excellency Nayab Aminullah Khan) which is the greatest proof of this national hero's integrity and importance. After the evacuation of the English forces from Kabul and the moving out of the Elphinstone column towards Jalalabad, when Amir Dost Mohamed Khan was a political detenue in India, and Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan was engaged in battling against the English at Jalalabad, while at Kabul Shahshuja and Sirdar Mohamed Zaman Khan were struggling for the throne, and the Polleck column was moving towards Afghanistan from India as an act of revenge against the Afghan nation and was nearing Jalalabad from Peshawar, the only person who watched for an oppoprtunity in this holocaust when internecine conflict was at its highest, was Nayab Aminullah Khan Logari. When he saw that the temper of the patriots was beginning to cool down in bewilderment, and the English were still at Kandahar and Jalalabad, the Nayab tried hard to produce a recon- ciliation between Shahshuja and Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan. He also endeavoured to persuade the Saduzai king to move against