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realm; so that Ranjit Singh took the beautiful Valley of Kashmir:
with slight difficulty from Jabbar Khan. After Jabbar Khan, the first
governor of Kashmire was one named Moti Ram. The Sikh Maharaja
took so much courage out of the discord that he even prepetuated
aggression on the territories right of the river Indus ; and wretled
Dera Ghazi Khan from of the hands of Nawab Mohamed Zaman
Khan. The unfortunate fact was that at this time the Sirdars were
in conflict amongst themselves in various parts of the country. Till
gradually the Sikhs continued to proceed on their aggression and
reached so far west as the neighbourhood of Attock and indeed to
the lower reaches of the river Kabul. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan,
who due to the anxiety of his money that he had near Killa Majina,
when faced with the Sikhs accepted defeat; and ultimately died on
his way to Kabul. All his fortune was bequethed to his son Habi-
bullah Khan.
When the days of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan were coming
to a close, he revealed the sources of all his fortune, and took a
promise from his son, Habibullah Khan, that after his death, he
(his son) will spend all that money in a war of revenge against the
the Sikhs. He was, ofcourse, aware that his son was not competent
to rule, Sirdar Mohamed Azoem Khan placed his son under the
the tutelage of his unble Nawab Khan.
A time when Ayub Shah, and Sirdar Habibullah Khan-one a
king and another the son of a Sirdar-came face to face at Kabul.
Each considered himself the ineritor of his father. The "king" was,
as we know that puppet, who was set up on the throne by the fa-
ther of Habibullah Khan. On the death of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem
Khan a curious situation obtained at Kabul. All the Barakzai Bro-
thers, whether in Pashawar or at Kandahar anxiously watched the
turn of events. All of them, quite naturally, were intessely, interes-
ted in all future developments; because power and riches-of Ayub
Shah and of Habibullah Khan-had now centered at one and the
same citedal; but the ultimate future was completely unknown as to
who will secure what.
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