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- 60 - Yar Mohamed Khan who is famous for his appointment as a minister was the son of a governor of Kashmire, one named Abdullah Khan. He was a governor of Kashmire at the time of Shah Mahmud. Abdullah Khan's son-Yar Mohamed Khan-became more famous than his father in Afghan history. Ultimately he became a Minister of the State, and ended up with becoming a king of Herat. His name was known all through Central Asia. Yar Mohamed Khan was a minister from the year 1830. A. D. till 1842. A. D. that is to the end of the days of Kamran as a king. His term of office was frougt with those uncertain and difficult times, when that area was rent asunder by inroads of the Kachars, the struggle of imperial expansion of the English and the Russians in centaral Asia regarding the strategical position of the city of Herat. There is little doubt that during such a period of difficulties of international magnitude, when the feeble king-like Kamran-was on the throne, the affairs of the state, as being upon the shoulders of a minister, were arduous and important. As the records of history manifest, from the moment, that this Sirdar of Alkozi took on the task of a minister, he was always solicitous that Herat shall be protected at all cost. Herat was, indeed, protected by him, as we had seen. When in the year 1833. A. D. the prince Abbas Mirza-the son of Fateh Ali Shah Kachar-launched an attack agaist Herat; and desired to settle the matter without fighting by talking to the representative of the Afghan king of Herat, it was Yar Mohamed Khan, who was sent as an envoy on behalf of the Afghan Saduzai king of Herat to Meshad; he did not accept the least point of influence of the Kachars in Herat or any of the regions under the rule of his sovereign; so that the Persia prince, contrary to all procedure, imprisoned the Afghan envoy and placed him under very adverse conditions. Quite naturally Kamran Shah made endeavours in getting the release of his minister; and either due to those endeavors; or that Abbas Mirza died (1833. A. D.) Yar Mohamed Khan returned to Herat and was once again busy with his duties, and was able to take the reigns of government in his strong hands.