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them was a protegee of the English and was hated by the people;
and the other was the one whom people had elected
When the English had taken half of India; and in order to
protect their possession in India, they had to progress further afied
into central Asian territories and had taken a political refuge in the
scare the danger of the coming of Napoleon eastwards; and by this
ruse had entered our country, "to protect Afghanistan from the
danger of the French conquerer" but in reality to protect their own
trading interests and their empire, and had put to flight the legally
elected king of Afghanistan Bokharawards. Shahshuja Saduzai was
placed for the second time upon the throne of Afghanistan after
23 years of his exile from the country in 1838 A. D. to 1842 A. D.
Shahshuja, however, ruled only in name, for all power of adminis-
tration was in the hands of Macnaughton. The English troops had
occupied the regions stretching from Kandahar and Garishk to Kilat
Ghilzai to Ghazni, Wardak, Kabul Charikar and Jalalabad. During
those four years of turmoil and disress if the nation Shahsuja and
Macaughton the people did not desist from making every possible
effort. When however cruelity and harsh treatment had reached its
apogee the leaders of the nation, collected round Abdullah Khan
Achkzai and Aminullah Khan Logari and held a number of meetings.
They planed certain schemes one day in the first ten days of the
month of Ramazan 1258. A. H. (November 1840. A. D.) and elected
Nawab Mohammed Zaman Khan son of Nawab Asad Khan-the grand-
son of Sirdar Payanda Khan as their king. Afterwards on the 18th.
Ramazan (second of November) they started to act. After the murder
of Burns the national rising increased daily against the English.
When the warfare was at its highest Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan
arrived at Kabul so the result of national resistence a treaty was
signed on 16th. Zilhij 1257 A.H. First of the Month of January
1842. A.D. in the text of which Sirdar Mohamed Zaman khan was
styled as the Great Nawab Nawab Mohammed Zaman khan and the
Representative was stled as Aminullah khan. All the other Sirdars pen-
ned their sign atures to the treaty and it was fully sealed and signed.
Shahshuja and Zaman Shah were in great conflict one against the
other during the middle of Ramazan 1257. A.H. to the middle of
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