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removed a man, who was the protector of them, and their system; thus precipitated such a upheavals in the territory. The loss of which is hard to estimate.
Sirdar Paynda Khan had twenty one sons; and they had been called by the European histonians as the Barakzai Brothers. The man who towered above them all in regards to great power of persuati-on, sagacity in matters of the state, in deaeifying tactics, in work-ing the matters of the realm according to the spirit of the age and the Afghan spirit; thus the English writers had given him (Fateh Khan) the title of King Maker. This appallation fitted this great Afghan Sirdar to a fault.
His father vas assassinated in the year (1214.A.H.) at Kanda-har on account of the mistakes of Shah Zaman and the intrigues of the courtiers. This incident, quite naturally had moved him as it moved his brothers to anger and revenge, and thus much that had happened after that period of hisory is compleioned by that sad tragedy; indeed, those sentiments lasted for and seventy five years. The first manifestation of this when the then king Zaman Shah was opposed by Fateh Khan-the son of the assassinated Sirdar Paynda Khan. He (Fateh Khan) joined issues with another rival of the th-rone with him; namely Shah Mahmud; thus it would be seen that the Afghan kingdom was first taken from Zaman Shah, and then from Shahshuja; so that Shah Mahmud ascended the throne for the second time; and that Fateh Khan was first installed as The best Friend of the king (Shah Mahmud) and then raised to the high dignity of the Great Minister.
Althought that after the assassinaton of Sirdar Paynda Khan fierce animosity arose between the two most important Houses those of the Saduzais and the Barakzais, co-opertion between these two Houses of Nobles did not entirely disappear; for it would be seen that when he was opposing Shahshuja, he was helping the other Sadu Zai namely Shah Mahmud. But unfortunately, Shah Mahmud did not fully realise the value of the help of his devoted co-opeator in Fateh Khan, or correctly appraise the help that he was giving to the benefit of the peotle. Fateh Khan wan all the time in search of finding a right person to rule;uch as
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