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his allegiance, and fortified himself in Shawl, and commenced foraying 

 the neighbouring Badeechees, Tareens, and other Afghans. Sometime 

 after in a skirmish with the Kakurs, Rustom Khan Baloch with several 

 followers were killed. On this account, the whole of Balochisthan 

 joined Meer Nasseer Khan ; except Meer Jahanee and Jangal Khan ; 

 who were in consequence obliged to make good their retreat to 

 Iskalkot, a place distant one fursakh from Kalat. Nasser Khan's force 

 gradually increasing, reached at last the alarming amount of one lac. 



On hearing this, the king determined on proceeding to Balochisthan 

 in person. After seeing Shahzada Timoor, he left Cabool on the 23rd 

 Zilkad, and passing Candahar, encamped on Thursday, 9th Mohurram, 

 on a rising ground, half a fursakh to the north of Kalat, and com- 

 menced the investment: next day, Shah Wullee 

 Siege of Kalat. T __ , , , 



Khan was appointed to take up the investment on 



the west side ; Barkhurdar Khan on the north ; Shah Pasand Khan 



on the south ; and Khan-i-Khanan on the east. Batteries were erected, 



and hostilities commenced. Many men were daily killed and wounded 



on either side, and Barkhurdar Khan was wounded by a matchlock 



bullet. At last, on Tuesday the 4th of Mohurrum, at noon, after a 



desperate and well sustained engagement, the Baloches gave in, and 



Nasseer Khan sent his mother and Mulla Haizat to sue for pardon, 



and soon after followed them himself. The king conferred on him a 



dress of honor, (at that time coarse satin, called mushroo^) and the 



chiefship of the whole of Balochisthan. 



The cause, course, and issue of this campaign is however differently 



told by the Brahoees, in the following' manner : 

 Other Version. 



Shah Wullee Khan, the all-powerful wuzeer of 



Ahmed Shah, either finding his influence declining, or taking offence 



at some act of the king's, instigated his partizan Nasseer Khan to 



rebel: and then persuaded the king to advance in person on Kalat; 



which place was unsuccessfully besieged for some time. 



At last the king authorized the wuzeer to enter into 



terms. The latter of course had no difficulty in inducing Nasseer 



Khan to come out, and surrender : which, it is said, he 

 Surrender. . *.■•-« i i . i j 



did, accompanied by a few followers, dressed in the rude 



manner of his country, with raw hide shoes, camel hair coats, and lea- 

 thern bags on their backs, containing a few handfulls of parched wheat, 



