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- 49 - Circumstances were enfolding significant happenings then; for surrounding Afghan matters, the English had reached the regions of the Punjab and Sindh; Ranjit Singh had bought the Attock fort from Ghulam Mohamed Khan and Jahandad Khan the Bamyazais; and the collaps of the Saduzai dynasty had been completed; and the Barakzai kingdom had not spring up so far. The weekness of the situation was significant; two weekling kings sat at the throne in Balah Hisar, the country was rend from one corner to another by fueds and feudal lords; and the English were marching westwards step by step towards Afghanistan. The Sikh Maharajas were now in possession of Kashmire, Multan Dera Jat and Peshawar; till that region was surrendered to the Servants of the East India Company. * * * TWO KINGN IN ONE CITY. FORTEENTH ARTICLE The years 1838. A. D. and 1842. A. D. which seperate the duration of the rule of Amir Doust Mohammed, was the time when Shahshuja backed by the English; and English backed by Shahshuja entered Afghanistan. This took place because the elected king of the country was not in the running and that the hand of the foreigners operated in all directions. During the six months of that time of trouble, two kings faced each other at Kabul; one of whom was fighting with the power of the strangers and the other was backed the nation spirit of the people". * * * In the previous narrative we have mentioned the difficult days of Bala Hisar life in Kabul; here again we desire to say something about the two kings at Kabul. One of these lived in great luxury and magnificence of Royalty; whilst the other existed in the poor man's quarters. Other lived in his own house as an ordinary man in the city. There is some diffirence between these two kings and those named above, however, for these two were the Saduzai princes. They had come forward as the nominees of two Barakzai Nobles; and these two kings were Barakzais and the other was from the Saduzais. One of