Rebellion of Mohammad Yaqub Khan [‎166v] (22/174)

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DE VIH OI 1 AZIM. ABDOOL EAHMAN IN PERSIA. ARCII OCT.
1869
f Telegrams from Commissioner in Sind, dated 8th
and 18th April 1869. (Proceedings, April 1869,
Nos. 119-21.)
+ Diary ending 22nd April.
, n v- r ,nd Ipf, o’o the reins from one's grasp, would be verv m, i
opposedtopSeTce! Should the Government let me, a s I requested before, free to It, tt
Government territory shall be my home.
And then he and Abdool Kahman took their departure from Kanegoorua,
hifw thov n„ d C ome to conduct their negotiations with the Commissioner
1869, So., 86.08, .»d J»«. 1869. K«. ‘l
•197 Tliev were still heard of in the Wuzeeree country on the 18th March
, , ,. A . n oon was in February offered by the Ameer for the annre
w.\o w r =» o » r „»js
iiciihiuu u March, and passing through that of the
* Diary ending 29tii March. Kakur* tribe, were set upon hut escaped
with the loss of their property and six of their followers, into Beloochistan’,
" where they were on the 26th March,f
thence via Nooshky to Roodhar in Seistan
thence to GhainJ and Beerjend, and even!
tually to Meshed, where they made some
stay.
The Meshed news- writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , writing on the 29th July, stated it to be Azim’s
obiect in coming to Persia to procure assistance in his designs by offering
Herat as its price. Prom what he heard on the road he had however abandoned
this idea before he reached Meshed.
328. In the autumn Azim Khan went on towards Teheran,* hut died on
his way thither at Shah rood on the 6th
* Diary endmg nth October. October. Abdool Rahman accompanied
him as far as Mshapore; but having received an invitation from the people of
Toorkistan, and hoping to get Russian assistance in his design of constituting a
separate kingdom of Afghan-Toorkistan,
t Diary ending 2ist Octobei. leftf him there after a violent quarrel (so
the Meshed Agent wrote on the 16th August) and with 30 sowars went over the
Kheyer Pass into Khiva. On the 22nd November the report of Azim Khan’s
death was confirmed by a letter from the Governor of Sehzwar. A Fatiha
was read by the Ameer’s order in the name of his deceased half-brother.
Regarding these refugees, the following correspondence passed between the
Government of India and Her Majesty’s Legation at Teheran:
Mr. Thomson having reported the arrival at Meshed of Azim Khan and
Abdool Rahman, on the 12th July 1869 the Government of India wrote to
him, saying,—
“ The Viceroy has every wish that Azim Khan and Ahdool Rahman should be treated by
the Shah or his officers with courtesy and kindness, and he is glad to think that hospitality has
been shown to them as distinguished refugees. But it is his earnest desire that their conduct
should be carefully and closely watched, and that, if possible, steps may be taken to prevent
them from engaging in intrigues which are intended to stir up civil strife and commotion
within the borders of Afghanistan.
“ Such intrigue would seriously interfere with the realization of the earnest desire of
Government for the establishment of a strong power in Afghanistan, which would, on the other
hand, be much helped on if Her Majesty's representative at Teheran could see his way to in
culcate a spirit of friendship towards Shere Ali on the part of the Shah."
Air. Thomson, 30th August, raJ replied that he believed the Persian Minis*
ter would not permit Azim or Abdool Rahman to carry on, during their stay
in Persian territory, any intrigue that could endanger the domestic tranquillity
of Afghanistan.
^ L1 ^ ie . ^ rc l August Mr. Thomson telegraphed that Azim and Abdool
Rahman having been detained for some time at Toorket by Azim’s illness, on y
reached Meshed on the 15th July.
n “ f . rhe new s was connmmicatecff 9th August, to the Ameer through Colonel Pollock, and
1 ugus ) fr. Ihomson was asked to what extent he thought the Government o
from^Meshed.' ^ omsou ^ ie occ asion of saying that he had taken measures to procure more reliable infoiinc