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-153- When this military infiltration was complete, Shair Ali Khan then took the Arg and Killa of Azimabad, and without recourse to actual fighting Shair Ali Khan managed to overpower his uncle in Kandahar, so that in the year 1272 A. H. Kandahar and its environs fell in line with the rest of the dominions of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan, and the last vestige of the Kandahari Sirdars was thus removed from the scene of government. This was really a great step that had been taken towards the unity of the kingdom. Shair Ali Khan's success made Sirdar Rahm Dil Khan to flee towards Marouf. Sirdar Mohamed Siddiq Khan, the son of Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan went to Farah. Sirdar Khushdil Khan, son of Sirdar Mihr Dil Khan, and Sirdar Sultan Ali Khan son of Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan fled to Poshanuj. The remaining descendents of the Kandahari Sirdars found their respective hiding places far and near. Sirdar Shair Ali Khan, however, chased all of them, so that Sirdar Jalaluddin Khan, the son of Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan arrested Sirdar Mohamed Sadiq Khan at Farah, but he escaped on the way towards Gulistan of Ghour. But from there he arrived at the court of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan. Sirdar Rahm Dil Khan after a great chase was brought before the Amir and because of promises of pardon that had been given through the intermediation of Sirdar Ghulam Haider Khan, the former came to realise that his claim and those of the others, no longer held true , and finally, therefore, the entire descendents of the Sirdars of the ancient city of Kandahar lost all claims to rulership. * * * SIRDAR SULTAN AHMAD KHAN and. THE HERAT GOVERNMENT. ARTICLE FORTHIETH In this article particulars will be given about a man, whose place is amongst the first in the rank of those who served the na-