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45 Mahmud Saduzai, and revenge of the clans started. At that time Sirdar Azeem Khan leaving his brother, one named Jabbar Khan, at Kashmire and journeyed by way of Peshawar to Kabul. The result of this internecine was the Sikhs took Kashmire. The date being 1235. A. H. or 1819. A. D. During this period of history when the princes of Saduzai, made apparent their unfitness due to their loose-ling and by their extravagants, the Barkzai Brothers were in search of a real leader for the rulership of the kingdom. There was a conflict between Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed khan. The scene of this struggle, too, was in Kabul. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, who had a precedence, both in regards to age and wealth amo- ngst all his brothers, but Sirdar operated with greater wisdom and foresight. For a time both of these brothers struggled against each other in the name of their king-protegee Ayub Shah and Sultan Ali Shah. This tussel moved around Kabul, Ghazni, Kohistan and Kohat and Sindh. Ranjit Singh, as was but natural took advantage of these animosities and started to inroad Peshawar ( 1238. A. H. 1822. A. D. ). Sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan, who was the governor of Peshawar on behalf of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan sought help from that Sirdar from Kabul. But unfortunately, limitless wealth had effected the Sirdar in Kabul and had his followers deserted at the fort of Machina, where the Sikhs had nearly overpowered them, and the promise of governorship of Peshawar to Yar Mohamed Khan on the part of Ranjit Singh on the other, had weekend the Afghan resistence. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan turned his face from Pesha- war; and at a point between Jalalabad and Kabul was taken ill by dysentry, and died at the age of 38 at Kotal Lata Band. His body was brought to Kabul, which was enturned at the grave yard of Ashiqan Arafan, from the following couplet his date of death could be made out : "If they ask the year of his death, say : In the Heaven he found a Place".