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Shadad were out hunting together, the former asked the latter to give 



him a drink of water. Mulla Shahdad complied, but 



Insult out Hunting. 



with a bad grace, as he regarded the request de- 

 rogatory to him, and fearing lest the Khan, if not remonstrated with, 

 would demand other menial services from him, wrote a letter to his 

 son at Candahar, saying, I always thought you were haizat (alive,) but 

 unless you can get Muhabbut Khan's affairs disarranged for me, I shall 

 think you dead. Akhund Mulla Mahommed Haizat, on receiving this 



■ „ „ letter from his father, made use of the influence his 



Mulla Haizat. 



patron the wuzeer Shah Wulee Khan had over 



Ahmed Shah, in getting Meer Muhabbut Khan summoned to court. 

 His coming to court, however, is accounted for in the history of Ah- 

 med Shah as follows: When that monarch was on his return from 

 Amanabad in Guzerat, to Candahar, in the third year of his reign 

 a. h. 1162, Muhabbut Khan Baloch came in and paid his respects, 

 and was made chief of the whole of Balochisthan ; soon after he began 

 to commit acts of cruelty and tyranny ; among which, the murder of 

 Gilan-i-Kasee in Shawl, was the most glaring. This determined the 

 king to fit out an expedition against him. The royal force was op- 

 posed at Mustung by a Baloch force under Raim Khan Shaheranee 

 and Mulla Haizat, and gained a victory, making both the above pri- 

 soners. On this news reaching Muhabbut Khan at Kalat, he re- 

 paired to the royal camp, surrendered himself, and then, with the 

 whole of his family, accompanied the king back to Candahar. 



When he, Mulla Haizat, had effected this, he still openly paid most 

 abject court to Muhabbut Khan, as his lawful chief; but secretly 

 intrigued with the Beahnee chiefs in the Khan's train, and by the aid 

 of presents put at his disposal by his patron the wuzeer, succeeded in 

 estranging the Brahoees from Muhabbut, and transferring their alle- 

 giance to Nasseer Khan. For some time these intrigues were carried 

 on secretly ; at last the wukeel, throwing off the mask, got the young- 

 er brother declared Khan of Kalat and himself wa- 

 Supercession. 



keel; and had Muhabbut Khan and a few of his 



confidential attendants put under surveillance, in which he died. 



Meer Eltaz Khan went mad; and his frantic tricks often justly 

 caused alarm. One day at Ganjabah, Meer Eltaz ap- 

 peared before Nasser Khan, when alone, with a 



