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by the thirty thousand rupees' bribe, and got him to address letters to 



Maee Sahab and Ahmed Yar Khan, in answer to supposed proposals 



made by them, to the effect, that " their letters had been received by 



Plot. Poordil Khan, who recommended them to pursue 



the course they had adopted, and promised that he would start with 



a force as soon as their plans were matured." 



These letters were shewn to Mehrab Khan as intercepted ones ; and 



in proof of the treachery of Ahmed Yar Khan. Merhab being loathe to 



believe it ; other letters were procured and shewn, the Khan believed 



them to be genuine, and Kulla Abdul Kadir, Meer Eesa Khan Mongul, 



Dad Mahommad Gilzye, and Meero Ghulam, did not hesitate to advise 



the Khan to do away with both Ahmed Yar Khan and Sarfraz Khan, 



who at last agreed to it. Accordingly in the month of Rujab, one day 



early in the morning, Meer Ahmed Yar Khan was summoned before 



Mehrab Khan, being at the time an invalid, and cut down in the 



_ rf . . . , presence. Meer Surfraz was then sent for, they 

 Deaths of Ahmed r J 



Yar Khan and Sur- found him reading the koran, which book he brought 

 fraz Khan. . 



to the- presence with him, and by it intreated 



Mehrab to spare his life. His intreaties were of no avail, he was 



slaughtered on the spot, Meer Eesa Khan striking the first blow. 



Mulla Raiee, Shahghasee Barfee, and fifteen others of the deceased's 



attendants were killed at the same time. Ahmed Yar's sons, Meer 



Shahnawaz and Meer Futteh Khan, with their mother were confined ; and 



they remained under strict surveillance for near twenty years. These 



murders were committed at Gundaba : and Mehrab Khan returned to 



Kalat, leaving Mulla Abdul Kadir governor of Bagh. 



On the march, and in the absence of the above, Dad Mahommed and 



„, Meer Eltaz completely gained the confidence and 



Meer Eltaz. r J 6 



trust of the Khan, who soon after married Bibee 

 Magany, the daughter of Meer Eltaz ; and made the father his manager, 

 Dad Mahommed having in reality all the power. 



Mulla Abdul Kadir, thus finding himself supplanted, appropriated 

 to himself about a lakh of rupees of the Cutchee collections ; and pro- 

 ceeded to Kahnak and joined Meerulla Kaisanee. Mehrab tried to 

 coax him to Kalat, but Poordil Khan and the Kakers some time dis- 

 suaded him. At last his father, Abdu Rahman, wrote him a letter ; 

 and among other affecting appeals, begged him not to prove false to 



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