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proved to be for the worse. Some of the
pamphlets and a few copies of the Islah found
their way to Kandahar and had a salutary effect مفید
in rousing the people. One of the Achakzai
قوی ۔ فوری leaders, Mehr Dil Khan, was strenuously
exerting himself to shake off Bacha's yoke.
Gradually he won a large number of
adherents from amongst the tribes and the
Bacha's military posts were taken and the
garrison massacred. Feeling the general
weakness of the Bacha's Government and
the universal hatred of the people for him,
he determined to march on Kandahar.
In the north the Bacha was very
successful. His agents Mohammad Qasim
Khan and Abdur Rahim Khan took the
whole province without having an army
at their command. Such was the general
hatred of the people for the ex-King and
his officials that the soldiers everywhere
شورش کردن mutinied, killed their officers and sent their
allegiance to the Bacha. Abdul Aziz Khan,
the Governor of Mazar-i-Sharif, had to flee
for his life. But soon the tables were turned.
Ghulam Nabi Khan, a brother of Abdul
Aziz Khan, with a handful of Turkomans
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