شؤون أفغانستان [ظ‎‎٨‎٦] (٢٨/١٨)

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Mahomed Azecm Khan, Herati, late Kouzdar of Lohgurd, will accompany
these envoys as far as Kurram, and from Kurrum Sirdar Wulli Mahomed
Khan will arrange to convoy them as far as Tlml, l. e., the British border. They
left to-day, and about eighty men have accompanied them.
Naib Mahomed Alum Khan, Governor of Toorkistan, has reported to the
Ameer that the sons of Meer Hukoomut Khan*
* Late Meer of Maunena. w ]] 0 were at Herat, having effected escape some way
or other, made an attack on the Mai men a border by the aid of the
people of the Emak tribe and the “ Ooloos” tribes of Maimena, Though
Meer Baheem Beg, agent at Maimena. was wounded, the sons of Meer
Ilukoomut Khan were otherwise unsuccessful. It appears from the circum
stances of this attack that probably the sons of the above Meer have not com
mitted this attack without the instigation of the Cahul authorities as the latter
are displeased with the Meer of Maimena, It is impossible that they could
have effected escape from Herat with the idea of attacking the Maimena
border without the consent of the said authorities,
Ari Urdu translation of a Hindee letter, lately received from a correspon
dent at Bokhara, is enclosed.
Meer Akhor Ahmed Khan* is still at Cabul, by order of the Ameer, for the
purpose of rendering the accounts of his Province,
and his officials have been summoned from Jellala-
# Governor of Jellalahsul.
bad to prepare the above accounts,
At the time of the arrival of Sirdar Mahomed Yacoob Khan at Cabul, Sirdar
# , Mahomed Ibraheem Khan* had expected that, as
His Highness was displeased with Mahomed Yacoob
Khan, probably the management of the Province of Herat might be granted to
him (Mahomed Ibraheem ) ; but as Mahomed Yacoob Khan has now been
ordered to go hack to Herat (to assume the reins of its government), Mahomed
Ibraheem’s expectations have vanished, and he is somewhat annoyed.
General Kudrut-oolla Khan* and General Daood Shahf having fallen into
* Late a Subadar in the 3rd Punjab dispute with one another at Furrah, the latter has
infantry. sent the former under surveillance to Cabul, accus-
d Commanding the Cabul troops. • i • , • o o, • , r .
mg him being a partisan of Sirdar Mahomed
U si urn Khan. Sirdar Mahomed Yacoob Khan has left the Killa (“ Sirdar Wulli
Mahomed Khan”) near Deh-baree for Herat.
The two Herafi infantry regiments who were disarmed previously have
been ordered to accompany him. About two hundred Cal mice officers and
sepoys employed in these regiments have been separafed from them, and the
rest have been permitted to leave without receiving road expenses,
Abstract translation of a letter dated thi Wi September 1871, from the correspondent at Bokhara,
to the Agent at Cabul.
r i kin -J^ d come Aom Slipbr-i-Sebz to Bokhara, but, in consequence
onus having fallen sick, be has left to-day for Zeearut Shah iYukshbimd. All
prisoners have been released ; all fines have been remitted and debts paid off.
pie p ovein °i o Shehr-i-Sehz, who bad fled the country and gone to the
Russians,_ has been sent to the king in company with an agent, who, aftera
sojouin o (ii c ays,- ms gone back. The main object of his (the agent’s) arrival
ms no , tanspiuA . i o information lias been received regarding Russian troops
sent to Qorgunj, Further report will follow. " 1
(True translations.)
(Signed) D. C. MAONABB,
OJ/i/. Commr $,• Supdt.,
1 J e&Iiatour Division.
No. 2109 P, dated Simla, the 4th October 1871.
Endorsed by the Foreign Department,
Copy foiwaided to the Government of Bombay for information.