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brought the aggression of the English to the land of the Afghans. Once
again the rightful king of Afghanistan had to renounce his throne and
his kingdom, and once again the heros of Afghanistan, fighting from
the foothills of Asmai and Shair Darwaza at Kabul and from the
plains of Maiwand gave a stern reply to the aggression of the invaders
who had no perception of their lost opportunities.
But the losses it caused to our country are positive facts. Just
decisions would incontrovertibly prove that the English themselves
threw over board the chances they were given at a most critical
period of time with their own hands. Opportunities which they them-
selves had sought they diliberately threw away and with their hands
weakened the country and the land the strengthening of which was
in their own interests a point of their own policy, and lay within
the ambit of their own general line of statesmenship.
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