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-39- Attaullah Bamyazai, regarding whose life work this is being reserved, was the son of Shair Mohamed Khan Bamayazai; who had been installed to the appointment of a minister during the time of Shah-Shuja. His title was Mukhtaru- Doullah; and he had acquired a great influence. There is no doubt that those who belonged to this family had been installed upon big or lesser appointments during the reign of Sadu Zai kings, since Timour Shah. History of the country mentions their name as such. Amongst these Shair Mohamed Khan and his son Attaullah Khan are especially included. This father and son are especially mentioned in relation to their activities during the rule of Shah Mahmud and Shahshuja. This connection, too, are divided into two parts: one is when Attaullha Khan was all in all as a governor of Kashmire, when his discharging of his duties had endeared him not only to his king Shah Shuja also to the people of Kashmire. The other aspect of his life was when smitten by the jeolousy of his rivals, and being disgraced, he had to forfeit his eyes, and be plunged into the darkness till the end of his life. Attaullah Khan's name will remain as one, whose term of office in Kashmire was a long one, and that over whom he ruled, too, were greatly satisfed by his behaviour. In the beginning Attaullah Khan was appointed as the governor of Abdullah Khan Alkawazi, who appointed there first by Zaman Shah; and that during the first years of reign of Shah Mahmud, this Abdullah Khan, had continued as governor of Kashmire as before. When Shahshuja, however, came upon the throne, and found that Attatullah was not so regular in sending in the revenue of Kashmire to the central government; he appointed Shair Mohamed Khan to dismantle him (Abdllah Khan) which he did. Shahshuja gave the Govership to the son of Mukhtaru-Doula and recalled Shair Mohamed Khan back to Kabul. When Shair Mohamed Khan noticed the difficulties in which his master-Shahshuja was with Shah Mahmud, he (Sair Mohamad) defied the call of his king and did not come to Kabul. But when he (Shair Mohamed Khan) did eventually return to Kabul, and Shahshuja was meantime absent from the capital, he excite the urge of the young prince