تمرد محمد يعقوب خان [ظ‎‎١‎٩‎٨] (١٧٤/٨٦)

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ALUM AND IBRAHIM.
[ 1870.
The main reason of the Commander-in-Chief s ill-feeling was, Alum said,
that he as Civil Governor had prohibited the delivery of gratuitous supplies.
511 Alum was, on the 16th July, sent back to his duties in Toorkis-
tan with honour, having explained his accounts fully, with the exception of some
items, to clear up which he left his Moostowfee behind He had reported sq
1 ill of Daood Shah that when that General
* Diary ending 25th July 1870. arrived in Cabul he was put* in confine-
ment, and the officers and soldiers, known to be partisans of Abdool Rahman
in the three regiments which he brought
t Diary ending i5th August. , PaDm w ere summarily dismissed.!
ful 9 When Alum left the Ameer held a consultation as to the expedi
ency of recalling Ibrahim fromToorkis-
* Diary ending 25th July 1870. tan" His courtiers advised* him to ap
pease the Sirdar by writing to him that
“as the Ameer himself did not govern his kingdom single-handed at Cabul, but in consulta
tion with Syud Noor Mahomed Shah and other officials, the Sirdar should also not take any
steps in the administration of Toorkistan without consulting with Naib Mahomed Alum
Khan, though the government of the said territory is entrusted to him, and that the Naib
will always zealously obey his orders/'
This the Ameer did; hut as, the agent said, no civil power had really
been assigned to the Sirdar, he was not likely to agree with Alum. In fact,
on hearing of Alum’s intended return, he expressed, so Eeramoz wrote, his own
inability to continue in the Province.
* Diary ending 2 nd August i87o. The Ameer on hearing of this wrote* to
Ibrahim desiring him to stay on where he was. Two days afterwards he heard
again from Peramoz that Ibrahim had
t Diary ending 2 nd August is7o. determined to send' an agent to represent
his grievance to the Ameer. Shere Ali then said f
‘ that Ibrahim Khan had been more than once instructed not to leave Toorkistan, but without
any effect; his leaving the place or remaining there was now immaterial; he was consequently
left to his own discretion and might come to Cabul if he preferred doing so,"
Perhaps Ibrahim’s agent heard of this remark, for when he came what he did
was to announce* his master’s intention
* Diary ending 9 th August 1870 . ^ maintaining cordial relations with
Alum—an assurance that much pleased the Ameer, who replied that Alum would
serve him zealously.
And, indeed, on Alum’s return he adopted at first a conciliatory demeanour,
and the arrangement effected between the two was that Alum should have the
sole disposal of all matters relating to income and expenditure, hut would not
take action in any political matter without consulting the Sirdar.
513. Hardly had Alum returned to his governorship than he caught hD
three men taking letters from Abdool Hahman to Bahram Khan, a partizan of
the late usurpers, hut now a professed adherent of the Ameer. He wrote to
the Ameer that he was going to blow the men away from guns. The Ameer
replied at once that he should not do such an act without authority from
Cabul; and that, instead of blowing the men away from guns, the better course
was to send them to Cabul, so that full information might he elicited from
them. Alum did not carry out his intention of killing the men, as he heard
from them that other emissaries had come from Abdool Rahman with letters
• Diary ending 4th August. f ° r in ToOfldstlln/*' and he W8S* in-
vestigating the matter to the bottom, so,
. two days after his first letter, he reported to the Ameer. At the same time he
deported some 400 more disaffected Afghan families from Toorkistan to Cabul.
jA ■ ( l r 1 uling 2n(i August / . ^ A occasional correspondent of the Punjab Government, in his letter of 30th July
18/0 said that the consequence of Alum Khan’s return was to make both Feramoz and Ibrahim very uncomfortable, and
that Ibrahim intended positively to go to Cabul almost immediately.
n o A j if °™ nal correspondent pt tlie Punjab Government confirmed this intelligence in his letter
18/0. He said there were emissaries of Abdool hahman who were raising levies in Akchah and Andkhoee