'Volume I. MEMORANDA REGARDING PERSIA AND NORTH-WEST TRANS-FRONTIER. 1905.' [‎75r] (154/310)

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KASHGAR.
On the 17th February, Mr. Macartney
wrote to the Yuen Taotai, asking him to order
the Provincial Governor of Kuchan not
to sanction any proposal of the ex-Mir of
Hunza, Safdar Ali Khan, to move towards the
Yarkand district, which is conterminous with
Indian territory, without reference to Mr.
Macartney. Safdar Ali is said to subsist on
the produce of his flocks, which are in charge
of his brother-in-law in Wakhan.
Mons. deLavrov’s tour to Tashkent and
Khotan (see last Journal) was, according to
Mons. Kolokolov, spe 3 ially sanctioned by the
Russian Foreign Minister while Mons. de-
Lavrov was in charge of the Consulate. In
the towns which he has visited so far, his prin
cipal occupation has been the preparation of
lists of Andijanis, possibly with the idea of
establishing additional Consular Agents. On
arrival at Khokand, he was met only by a
couple of Regs, and the Amban did not go
out to meet him.
CHITRAL.
The people in the Khushwakt country
have been somew T hat disturbed by a rumour
that Government has decided to hand their
country over to the Mehtar of Chitral. They
are quite content as they are, and have been
re-assured by the Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. .
The Mehtar intends to betroth his eldest
son to the daughter of Mehtar Jao Abdur
Rahman, Governor of Yasin. He is at present
somewhat estranged from the Khan of Dir,
whom he refused to assist during his recent
conflict in Bajaur.
GILGIT AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
Owing to the murder of Ismail (see
last Journal), Mehtar Jao Pukhtun Wali was
besieged in his house in Tangir by 600 men,
who w T ere repulsed with a loss of seven killed.
The ir of Hunza has made arrangements
for the despatch of the usual annual presents
to the Chinese authorities at Kashgar. 1 tie
letters accompanying them have been submit-
tn Dip. Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. for approval.
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. .
Dir, Swat, and Bajaur.—The cessation
of disturbances in Dir has been follow^ by
troubles among the family of Badshah Khan
whose wife has quarrelled with the Shah Bibi
and other wives of the late Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. . Ihere were
still various plots and counter-plots going on
between the Naw'ab of Nawagai, Saiyid
Ahmed Khan of Barwa, and other local leaders,
but the exceptionally severe weather pre
vented overt action, until early in Mai oh