'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' [‎283] (325/476)

HISTORY OF BELOOCHISTAN.
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pressly stipulated, " that he and his successors were never to assist
" in a civil war ; a clause to which they have strictly adhered
" throughout all the dissensions respecting the Kabool dominions
This treaty having been ratified, the King returned to Kandahar
with his new wife and some of her relations, among whom were the
Khan's mother, and Beheram Khan, a brother of the lady that the
King had espoused.
It is related as an anecdote of Nusseer Khan's military talents, and
also one that tended to shorten the siege of Kelat, that he one day
observed Ahmed Shah saying his prayers on a carpet spread in front
of his tent: he instantly loaded and pointed one of the cannon of the
fort, and struck, with the ball, the spot on which the King had just
before prostrated himself. The monarch, as it is said, made imme
diate overtures for the negotiation, and afterwards complimented the
Khan on this proof of his skill in gunnery.
In 1761-2, Nusseer Khan was called upon, by Ahmed Shah, to
accompany him, on his second expedition into Hindoostan. He
joined that monarch, with his troops, at the city of Lahore, in the
Punjab, and was present at a battle fought between the Seikhs and
the Uffghans, in which the former were defeated with great slaughter.
The Khan afterwards returned to Kelat; while the King advanced to
the relief of Delhi, which was then threatened by the remnant of the
troops of the Mahratta confederacy that had escaped at the battle of
Panniput f. In 1769, the whole of the Persian chiefs formed a coa
lition to attack the UfFghan dominions to the westward, and Nusseer
* When Captain Christie and myself were at Kelat in 1810, Shah Muhmood, one of
the competitors for the throne, wrote to Muhmood Khan, desiring his aid against
Shoojaool Moolk. The Khan's reply was, that he was ready to assist in expelling
invaders from the dominions of the Kings of Kabool, or to provide his troops for foreign
service; but, that his father's treaty with Ahmed Shall was a sufficient answer to the
present demand.
f The battle of Panniput was fought in January 1761. An excellent and detailed
account of it is to be found in the Third Volume of the Asiatic Researches, London.
Fifth Edition, Page 91.
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