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-64- they should really combine in their efforts. This is a time, too, when Ahmed Khan the head of the Ishaq Zais, induce Kuhin Dil Khan to take the region of Lash, then Shair Dil Khan son of Mihr Dil Khan started from Kandahar to that direction ; just in time Kuhin Dil Khan's son Sirdar Mohamed Saddiq Khan occupied the region of Chughansour. Yar Mohamed Khan was rather frightened about this, therefore, he, tooo, tok notice of the region of Lash and removed Ahmed Khan form that locality; and send Sirdar Mohamed Saddiq Khan back to Kandahar with due honour and with much favour; ma- king his son Sirdar Said Mohamed Khan as the governor of Lash. He himself returned to Herat. In the way to Herat, he fell ill suffering with fever and died in 1267, A. H. He was burried near the grave of Jami. During his rule in Herat Yar Mohamed Khan-twelve years with his might reduced all the lesser nobles to subjugation. He gave peace to practically all the territories under his jurisdiction. He also paid a great deal of attention to agriculture and even to the mines of his territory. He repaired all those buildings which had suffered during fighting in and around Herat. Those who had died as a result of the war with the foreigners were remem- bered by him, for their dependents received grants of lands in such regions as Killa Noa and in areas around. As compared to the Saduzai princes, he ruled a larger territory and most certainly much more effeciently. TOWARDS THE FRONTIER DELINEATION. EIGHTEENTH ARTICLE The English atlast on their road of imperialist expansion reached upto the banks of the Indus in the middle of the 19th. century of Christian Era. But from the time that they arrived at that locality, they were subjected to great difficulty, for there they were confronted with the problem of delineating the frontiers. The difficulty was that during a whole century their political thinkers and their military officers through various writings and in virtue of multiferous documents which they had sighned, they had com- mitted themselves to quite a number of baffling situations. They knew that the problems of the frontiers between them and the