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- 62 - attention to the soft words of the English; and because of the friendly pressure of Mohamed Shah Kachar, he commanded that Major Tode should leave Herat. His growing power was now in progress, till in the year 1842. A. D. he managed to remove even the Kamran from his royal position. There is little doubt that after that date, he did not proclaim himself as a king, but called himself only a Minister of the Realm. This title was considered of greater magnitude that the kingships of either Shah Mahmud or Kamran. He ( Yar Mohamed Khan ) now started on a carrer to extend the extent of his territory. Yar Mohamed Khan paid attention to this extension of his administrative province in two directions ; namely in the south and the East-in Ghour and in the regions of Murghab. He reduce Karim Dad Khan, the head of the Hazras, of Killa Noor, to submission. In the year 1842. A. D. ( 1257. A.H. ) which is the time of a great anti-English movement at Kabul, he took an expedition to Ghour. At the time in Ghour two persons had influence , one was Mustafa Khan and the other was named Ibrahim Khan. Two sons of Kamran named Saiful Muluk and Saadat Muluk took refuge with Ibrahim Khan ; also Sirdar Din Mohamed Khan-who as may be remembered had waived his claim over the Minister of the Realm office-had now become an enemy of him under the protection of one Mustafa Khan. In addition to this Rawlinson, the political representative of the English in Kandahar had also taken steps to remove Yar Mohamed Khan from Herat, and his activities were projected at Ghour. The Minister of the Realm took advantage of the animosity of these two nobles of Ghour and rendered them week by precipitating a conflict bet ween them ; so that the was able to project his influence in Ghour upto Karz and Nazli. This done he returned to Herat. In 1846. A. D. when Mohamed Shah dismissed Saifud Dowlah from the governorship of Meshad ; the king of Herat found the opportunity to extend his influence up to Tuhat Jam. During that year and the year after that 1847. A. D. he was further able to extend his say to the region of Mughab, Shibarghan, Aqhcha, to Sarpul and upto the neighbourhood of Bulkh. He wrote a letter to the ruler of Merve, asking him to surrender himself under the rule of Yar Mohamed Khan.