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- 140 - the English at Jalalabad, and to incite the valour of the nation for the protection of the country, but conditions changed with the murder of Shahshuja, the defeat of Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan and the entry of General Pollock's force in Afghanistan. Later during the months of Rajab, Jamadul Sani, ane Shaban 1258. A H.(July, August & September 1842. A. D. ) were months of great distress because of intense conflicts among the leaders of this country. In Kabul Fateh Jung son of Shahshuja had pro- claimed himself king. Between him and Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan fighting ensued, the house of the Nayab was sacked onaccount of his supposed partiality towards Fateh Jung, Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan on his return from Jalalabad restarted the fight against Fateh Jung upon the Marunjan hill, till through the intervention of the Nayab it was resolved that Fateh Jung should remain kink and Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan should become the Minister of the Realm. From that date Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan was known as the Vizir, but unfortunately this settlement had little meaning when the Pollock force entered Kabul, the cohesion of national resistance broke down, and Vazir Mohamed Akbar Khan left for Bamyan. Fateh Jung came under the protection of the English. Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan, whom the English considered as their guest sat silently in his house. The only man who collected a force of resistance in the north and fought on to the end in the hills of Istalif against the English detachment sent under Maccaste was Nayab Aminullah Khan Logari. The English called him their Enemy Number One, and they had every right to do so, because he was the only active leader of the nation at the time. According to the report of one of the compatriots of the Nayab, Amir Dost Mohamed Khan during the second period of his reign flung Nayab Aminullah Khan into the dungeon, and the Nayab died in prison at the age of 87 years.