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-155- Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan was a playmate of Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan, one of the sons of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan, and both during their younger days and when they were grown men, they remained great friends. Not only because of their association during their youth but also in regards to higher things in life, the views of the two were similar. Their personalities ought to be kept in view as to the activities of each in the development of historical events as the time progresses so that the troubles and tribulations of life of the times could be seen as reflected by the two careers. When Amir Dost Mohamed Khan had taken refuge in Bokhara on the English invasion of Afghanistan accompanied by Shah Shuja, these two Sirdars were busy in devising schemes, each in his own way; to win back the liberation of Afghanistan. When Amir Dost Mohamed Khan ultimately reached Kabul, the two Sirdars having endured the prison the Amir of Bokhara, were released in the year 1257. A. H. and crossing the Oxus reached the troublous regions of Kabul once again. As every body knows those were the times when the great movement of national liberation was a foot at Kabul. At Shair Pur Abdullah Khan Achakzai was attacking the English guns constantly till one day the two Sirdars also reached the battle field and found that the other great national hero-Abdullah Khan Achakzai-was mortally wounded. After this, in all battles and forays, such as the battles at Shair Por, at Bibi Mahro, in all conferences of the leaders of the nation against the English, as also in the assassination of Macnaghten, in the conference which terminated in the treaty of the English and their promise to evacuate Kabul, in those engagements that took place in the eastern parts of the country, at the attack at Tazeen, in the battles of Jalalabad, in the efforts to thwarting the forces of General Pollock, in the Khyber pass, and in short in all those battles and engagements that were undertaken for the defence of the country against the agressors Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan took notable part. From the smallest to greatest of these events he was an active partner of his cousin and friend Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan. Indeed,