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did not allow him to enter the Fort. Fateh Khan, perhaps under instructions from Mahmud, arrested the ruler and sent him to Kabul under an escort, while he directed Dost Mohammed to enter Herat and take possession of the Citadel and the treasury. One of the princesses, sister of Kamran and wife of Prince Mohammed Kasim, son of Firozud-din, called upon her brother, to avenge her grievances. Kamran, governor of Kandahar, who had an old grudge against the Vazier, hailed the opportunity. Repairing to Herat, he caught hold of Fateh Khan, who had by now won a decisive victory over the Persians at Kafir Killa, and immediately deprived him of his eyesight, while Dost Mohammed Khan escaped to Kashmir with the treasures.
Retribution immediately followed this out-rage. Fateh Khan's brothers, twenty in number, raised the standard of revolt in every part of the country. The blinded Minister was taken to the Shah, who asked him to write to his rebellious brothers to submit. The Vazier replied courage-ously that he was a poor blind prisoner having no control over his brothers. In the meantime the Royal Forces sustained crushing defeats on
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