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the Barakzai Brotheas regarding the apportioning of Afghanistan.
A group of them took over the regions of Peshawar and Kand-
ahar; and Doust Mohamed Khan was given Kohistan to administer.
It is, also the time, when Sirdar Shair Dil Khan taking the lar-
gest share of the late Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan's fortune
from his son Habibullah Khan, left for Kandahar. Ataullah Khan,
the governor of Peshawar taken ill, and sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan
died; and Sirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan was made the governor of
Kabul on his behalf. The last tussel between Sirdar Doust Mohamed
Khan and Sirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan, the first being the gov-
ernor of Kohistan and the last named the Governor of Kabul,
began in the year 1243. A. H. ( 1827. A. D. ) Sirdar Sultan Moh-
amed Khan was surrounded at Bala Hisar. A pact was signed by
which Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan was to receive one lakhs of
rupees annually from the Kabul revenue; and Sultan Mohamed
Khan left the citadel from one gate, and Sirdar Doust Mohamed
entered it by another. Doust Mohamed Khan, in addition, took
over the rulership of Kabul for himself.
If we were to study closely the conditions of the time and
the activities of the Barakzai Brothers in Kandahar and Peshawar,
we would note that fate also played a favourable part for Doust
Mohamed Khan; in this way that when Sirdar Shair Dil Khan
took Kabul, he sent his uncle one named Khudai Nazar Khan with
Ghayas Khan Alkozi, that they should get all that money which
the documents revealed that Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan had
upon the people. These two messengers used cruel methods to
methods to exhort the money so that the people of Kabul having
been distracted, approached Sirdar Shair Dil Khan, who in place of
roviding a re-dress upbraided them; and this occasioned a conflict
between the Kabulis and the Sirdar. Accordig to his plans, ther
efore, Sirar Shair Dil Khan, appointed Doust Mohamed Khan as
the governo of Kohistan; placed Sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan at
the head of the affairs at Kabul and he himself left for Kandahar.
When Sirdar Dil Khan left for Kandhar, the people of Kabul
felt very relieved; and as they had been annoyed wih him, his
representaives also ahared in that unpopularity: Sirdar Dust Mohamed
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