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-18- Haji Ali disguised the king and led him out of the prison and took him to the Killa of Vazir; after which Nawab Zaman Khan managed to get him smuggled to the Punjab. There is no doubt that the terminatin of the Saduzai dynasty repared the way for a Barakzai Brothers rule; and a chance cane when the Barakzais were abletosecure the throne of the country. Althouegh this transference of sovereignty could have taken place earlier; but Pur Dil Khan rather than act in the general interest of his kinsmen, and availing himself of the opportunny of placing his family upon the trone; merely contended himself getting his share from the vast share of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, and let go the rest of the matter to work out as best as it could. Pur Dil Khan appointed Sirdar Habibullah Khan as the ruler of Kabul in place of Ayub Shah; so that in place of establishng a solid basis for rulership, gave rise to a fuedal controversy; so that during those fateful years of second quarter of the 19th. Century, when the country needed strength through unit, our Sirdars were more interested in struggle for power and money at Bala Hisar than the more immediate needs of the country. * * * THE PLAN & THE PURPOSE OF SHAIR DIL KHAN. ARTICLE TTENITY SECOND After the collaps of the Saduzais, till the rulership of the Mohamedzais; all the Barakzai Sirdars endeavoured to garnish their own interests and purpose. Their numbers and iufluence gradually produced important places for them at the court. But as the hand of the brother was raised against his brother, and had disintegrated man from man; even at the hight of power, their internecine conflicts rendered their power as a negative force, which produced nothing better than a fuedal conflict; from which the of reigners benefitted. * * * The sons of Sirdar Payunda Khan, who in history are as a rule termed as Barakzai Brothers, after the assassination of their