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-137- a daughter of Kamal Khan of Khurram Khail Wardak, and lived till four years prior to the death of the Amir Dost Mohamed Khan, thus she must have attained an age of 87 years. Nayab Aminullal Khan had six brothers. His father died while he was in charge of Kashmir during the time of Timour Shah. His body was brought to Kabul, and the salary of the deceased officer was given by the government to his descendents for honest services rendered to the State. Amongst those letters, which recently have been purchased for the Kabul Museum, there is a letter dated the 5th of Ziqadulharam 1214. A.H. and is signed by the term: "Alabud al-Muznab Dost Mohamed" revealing that the Khan Logari Nayab Aminullah Khan during the later years of Zaman Khan's rule had been acknowledged on behalf of the government as a Baraki nobleman and as head of the clan, and a yearly stipend of two hundred toumans Tubraizi, meaning four thousand ruppees, was granted to him. After Zaman Shah, and the ascending to the throne by Shah Mahmud Sadozai, Aminullah Khan Logari held the same position of a the head of Logar and Butkhak. It would appear that Fateh Khan entitled as SHAH-Dost had a particular liking for Aminullah Khan Logari. The Minister of the Realm Fateh Khan, who himself was one of the great pillars of national greatness, quite naturally valued the workers in the cause of the progress of the country, which is possibly the reason why through the recommendation of Fateh Khan, his friend Aminullah Khan Logari was made a head of Logar and Butkhak by Shah Mahmud Sadozai. A salary which was fixed for him by Zaman Shah was continued. But when there was a cooling off of relationship between the Sadozai King and the Barakzai Minister, and the country was deprived of the national services of one like Fateh Khan, and after the shameful assassination of Payanda Khan, troublous times came upon the country as a result of discord between the two houses of Sadozais and Barakzais, Sirdar Mohamed Azim Khan remembering the former friend of Fateh Khan invited Nayab Aminullah Khan to come forward and assist the Barakzai Brothers by sending letters to himrom Kashmir and Peshawar.