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Ghulam Mohamed Khan and Samandar Khan. These two bro-
thers no doubt, on behest of their brother, who was the govenor of
Kashmire, one Attaullah Khan. Shahshuja was arrested and sent as a
prisoner to Kashmire. The influence of Attaullah Khan, thus was
paramount from Kashmir to Peshawar.
In as much as Vazir Fateh Khan regarded the instruction of
the governors of the outlandish parts of the kingdom as the source
of the government, he started with the king-Shah Mahmud-taking
his brother Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mahamed
Khan with him towards Kashmire. Peshawar could not with-stand
opposition both times; and Kashmire on the second occasion, that
is in the year 1227. A.H. ( 1812. A.D. ) was wrentched from out of the
hands of Attaullah Khan. As a reward of the services of Sirdar
Mohamed Azeem Khan, the govership was entrusted to him; so that
the last governor of Peshawar became the governor of Kashmire. The
Bamyazais after their disappointment and hopelessness resorted to a
mean device; for one named Jahan Dad Khan, one of the brothers
of Attaullah Khan sold the fort of Attock to Ranjit Singh for a
sum of one lakh of rupees. This was the occasion, when the Sikhs
started their military deprividation in the realm of the Suduzais. As
a result of this in July 1814. A. D. ( 1232. A. H. ) Rajit Singh started
a war against Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan found further strength
through this victory.
Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, as the result of these wars, was
not too keen to pay the revenue of Kashmire to the central trea-
sury of the kingdom. Also, as the aggression of the Sikhs, which
increased daily, could no longer be tolerated, Vazir Fateh Khan
started out towards Kashmire in the year 1816, A. D. There was a
likelyhood that a fight insure between him and his brother; but the
intercession of his other brother-Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan-the
fight did not take place, and a settlement was arrived at. After the
payment of thirteen Lakhs of rupess as the revenue, he was allowed
to continue on the governorship. He was still at Kashmire, when his
brother Fateh Khan was rendered blind and was ultimately killed,
and the relations of the Barakzai Brothers were strained with Shah
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