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- 123 - Afghans to a pass and point from where the people could see the rising star of the birth of their independence. By a happy coinci- dence when Ahdullah Khan Achakzai fell moratally wounded, Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan, the gallant son of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan-who was at Bokhara for a long time-reached Kabul and took up the task of the national liberation, leading the people to waids new Vistas, with revived spirits for the national cause, which brought out the hidden qualities and urges of the people to the fore. * * * THE ABANDONING OF SHAIRPORE. 6th. January 1842.A.D. ARICLE : THIRTY SECONDTH From the 7th of August 1839. A.D. to 6th of January 1842.A.D. for a period of about two and a half years, the English forces stayed at Kabul. They were supposed to be there in order to help Shahshuja : Their camp during that "un-invited"stay was situated at a "fort" rectangular in shape which was styled the Cantonemert or Chawani. This place was outside the city on the northern outskirts towards the eastern roadway which ran straight from the capital to a small willage known as the village of Bibi Maro and connected it with the city. After the reign of Amir Shair Ali Khan, when a suburb was named Shairpore on the south-west of the village of Bibi Maro, and the area was made a military base, this locality during the Second Afghan War was very well known as Shair Pore. In view of the fact that according to the name and fame that Shairpore had acquired due to its military significance and warfare durins the aggressive wars of the English, and the part that this region had played in that struggle, and further- more to the fact that during our first struggle against the English invasion it had not assumed any foreign importance, therefore nistead of styling this chapter as "Chawani",we have named it "Shairpore" thus the heading of the chapter has been put as the "Abandoning of Shairpore".