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in time took the shape of installing of their own principalities in three points in Afghanistan: in Peshawar, in Kandahar and in Kabul. In all these three localities, however, Kabul was the most important. For the capturing of that premier locality first of all Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed khan made their individual efforts. Sirdar Doust Mohamed khan however managed to secure that coveted honour and established a Barakzai reigning dynasty.
In the thirteenth article of this review under the title of "TWO KINGS IN ONE PALACE," we had said some thing about the subject; and the readers must have noted as to how Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan had journey one after another to Kabul to avenge the death of their brother Fateh Khan. The two Sirdars faced each other in a different manner. Each of these had installed a prince of their own choice for kingship. Each of these princes was the son of Timour Shah, the previous king of Afghanistan; the one selected by Doust Mohamed Khan was one named Ayub and the other Sultan Ali was selected by Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan. Each of these Sirdars had elected himself as the minister of the realm of their protige. The real fact is after the defeat of Kamran and Shah Mahmud near the villagee of Hindiki and their flight towards Herat; and the good impression that had obtained in regards to the descendents of Payanda Khan and his relatives; the two above mentioned Sirdars were regarded as the most competent future rulers of Afghanistan.
There is little doubt, of course, that amongst all the Barak-Zai Brothers, Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan was the most experienced, the eldest and the man of considerable influence; and practically every one acknowledged his excellent qualities. But as Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan, though younger, was in a more advantageous position: because he had been more under the training of his father: and he was a man of qualities of his own as a person who could time things, could manoeuvar matters to his will and a statesman no mans small calibre. After Fateh Khan he would not acknowle-
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