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not held by them though their own wishes or their own desires,
with the slightest adverse current of affairs, they could be wafted
from their places and had been replaced by others.
The particulars of th life of prince Qaisar, or beter still
those facts of his life that had impressed tkemselves on the pages
of history, are of a nature of drama; or a ball: the movememnts
of which ought to be viewed in light. Such facts of his life cannot
repose un-noticed in the chronicles of this country's events. In all
the years of his youth the governorship or rulership of Kabul,
Herat and especially the viceroyalty of Kandahar was son igned
to him; but during the time of his father, the rivals of the throne
did not leave him in peace. During the rule of his uncle, nobles
like Vazir Fateh Khan, and Mukhtar-u-Doullah Shair Mohamed
Khan incited him to a revolt. They, of course, dangled him about
this side or that according to their own plans or schmes. The
first posihon of responsibilty which was entrusted to him was the
governorsip of Kanhahar; in which he was installed when yet a
mere child. When Zaman Shan occupied the throne of his father
Timour Shah he was immediately confronted with the opposition
of his brother Humayun. It was then that Zaman Shah placed
his young son, Qaisar as the governor of Kandahar when the
prince was hardly seven of age. Abdullah Khan Noorzai was put
as the guardian of the boy prince. Meantime Zaman Shah trevelled
upto Herat, then returning to Kabul marched on to Peshawar; in
order to arrrange matters in the eastern province of his realm.
From Peshawar he wanted to study the future plans of his cam-
paign of India. Findin Zaman Shah absent from the country; Humyun
emerging from his hiding place in Bluchistan converged upon
Kandahar with Bluchi co-operators. The battle that took place
near the city of Kandahar between the young prince, the nephew
and his uncle Humayun is both dramatic and sad. It is related
that the small prince was wounded and his cousin, Ahmed the
young son of Humayun, was in tears about the woundng of the
young Qaisar; but the ontesting Humayun became angry; and put
the "infant" prince (Qaisar) into prison. It is, of course, true
that this young boy prince had hardly any say in the matter of
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