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-174- the Amir had become suspicious towards him both because he helped the revolt of Sirdar Mohamed Aslam Khan and because of the discovery of a letter of Sirdar Mohamed Azam Khan, decided to march his troops northwards. A body of men under the command of prince Mohamed Ali Khan, the son of Amir Shair Ali Khan marching on to the north contacted the other troops in the valley of Bajgah near the Seighan and Kahmurd. The son of the Amir found himsel victorious, and the Amir himself arrived at the rear. At the Dou Aab of Shahpasund, Sirdar Mohamed Afzal Khan made an appearance before the Amir Shair Ali Khan. Rather than to march back to Kabul, and give the governorship of the north to his brother, the Amir marched upto Mazar Sharief, and Sirdar Abdur Rahman not liking the idea of his father submitting to Shair Ali Khan went as a refugee to Bokhara, while Mohamed Afzal Khan was put under house-arrest, so that the biggest of the claimants to the throne was squashed. Sirdar Mohamed Aslam Khan resolved to fly to Hazarajat. He had an idea that with his real brother, Sirdar Mohamed Husain Khan he might still offer some resistance. Before the Amir reached Kabul, the above mentioned Sirdar reached Zormut and with the help of the tribesmen belonging to his mother's clan, he attacked Kabul. Amir Shair Ali Khan was well aware of these plans. He, too, laid due plans in that direction. In Kandahar, Sirdar Mohamed Amin Khan did not send his Letter of Allegiance, but he was left there unmolested for the time being. In the Hazarajat, the other brother of Mohamed Aslam Khan was given a letter of pardon, and in addition, the Amir invited the people there to make allegiance to him ( to Shair Ali Khan ). As the people wanted to resist, Mohamed Aslam Khan was won over by Sirdar Mohamed Afzal Khan, and despite the fact that he had sent in his Letter of Allegiance to Amir Shair Ali Khan, he continued to help the enemies of the Amir, and endeavoured to ally them to his own cause. When Sirdar Mohamed Azam Khan had separated himself from Amir Shair Ali Khan at Subzwar ( Sheen Dund ), he reached Zormut