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favourable opportunity, and attended by Shahghasee Deen Mahommed, 



repaired unobserved to the Myan quarters, and finding him asleep, 



murdered him. They afterwards made an attempt 

 Murder. 



to murder Mulla Futteh Mahammed wukeel, and 



naib Abder Rahman in their quarters, but failed. Mustafa Khan, 

 when the unusual consternation produced by this event was still at its 

 height, despatched, by the Nagour road to Kalat, Sultan Mahommed, 

 Murad Mullazye, and Meer Allee, the nephews of darogah Gul Ma- 

 hommed, with orders to confiscate the Myan's property, as well as that 

 Confiscation. of the following Babee merchants, who were all im- 

 prisoned, viz. Khaleefa Abdul Kareem ; father of the present Faiz 



Imprisonment. Ahm,d, Mulla Alif, Bostan, and Myan Moorulla, 

 brother of the deceased. 



Meer Mustafa sometime after came to Kalat himself, and released 

 Release. the Babee merchants, having realized, it is said, 

 nearly four lakhs of Rupees, from the confiscated property. 



Noor Mahommed Khan Moosanee, father of the present Meer 



_ . . , . Boohir, had, on hearing of the death of Myan 

 Relationship. . 



Ruhulla, taken his family to a place of safety, at 



Noghiana, for the sake of the relationship that existed between them. 



Myan Sibaghatulla, the son of Myan Ruhulla, having married a 



daughter of Noor Mahommed Khan's. 



Another of the events that marked the reign of Mahmood Khan 



happened as follows: Meer Fakeer, father of Reia 

 Meer Fakeer. rr 



Bezanjo rebelled. Meer Mahommed reported the 



subject to Shah Shuja, and as he, as an Amadzye, could not inflict the 



punishment of death, requested the king to depute one of his own 



nobles to sanction the adoption of extreme measures towards the rebel. 



Naib Gul Mahommed Populzye was accordingly despatched, and arrived 



at Kalat, and from that place accompanied Mahmood Khan to Khoz- 



• dar, where Fakeer and forty of his followers were 



Execution. J 



captured and slain. Meer Mehrab Khan, during 



the Barikzye usurpation, did not hesitate to put Brahoees to death, 



without any sanction but his own. 



During Mahmood's time, Quettah was twice sacked by the Kakars. 



An embassy from the Immam of Muskat came to Kalat during Mah- 

 Muskat. mood's time, and never after. 



