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to take refuge in the mountains ; and Shere Mahomed entered the 

 city and assumed the government. Abdoola Khan was, however, 

 tacitly allowed to return and take up his quarters in the city, where 

 he shortly after died. Shere Mahomed then sent for the late 

 Soobahdar's son Attar Mahomed Khan, who was cooped up in the 

 fort of Beyrwa, appointed him Naib, and returned to Kabool, 

 which was still distracted by the rival claims of the descendants 

 of Timoor Shah. During the one year this governor remained at 

 Cashmere, a crore of rupees came to the treasury from the country, 

 owing to the unusual activity of trade and the influx of foreign mer- 

 chants, &c. 



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The ensuing year his successor, Akram Khan, was appointed who, 

 on arrival, was defeated by Attar Mahomed, and his whole army 

 made prisoners ; the latter, however, made a mild use of his vic- 

 tory : he soon after presented each soldier with clothing and sent 

 them back to Afghanistan. After this, Mahomed Shah did not 

 think it advisable to disturb Attar Mahomed in his government, 

 and the latter occupied his leisure in organizing his means of 

 resistance. 



A. D. 1807. — He repaired and strengthened the fort of the 

 Koh-i-maran on the Harriparvat and built a strong fort at 

 Mozafferabad, and several ghurries along the same road. His 

 brother Jehandad Khan had also strengthened himself at Peshawar ; 

 he held the fort of Attock, and the family contemplated an orga- 

 nized resistance to the Barukzyies. During this period Kabool 

 was convulsed by the rival claims of the Barukzyie and Suddoozyie 

 factions. At length in the year H. 1227, (A. D. 1812,) Mahomed 

 Shah sent his captive brother Soojah-ul-Moolk to Cashmere, where 

 he was imprisoned in the fort of the Koh-i-maran. 



On the retreat of Shah Zeman from Lahore in the year A. D. 

 1801, Kunjeet Sing had risen rapidly into importance, and had con- 

 solidated a nation whose elements he found existing in the Punjab 

 in a disjointed form. He was now in fact (A. D. 1813,) amongst 

 the number of the princes of India, and was even deemed an ally 

 worthy of the British Government. Thinking him a fit co-adjutor, 

 Putteh Shah therefore, feeling himself unequal to the conquest of 



