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PoPALZAi, (2) ALAKo'zii, (3) Ba'rakzai, (4<) AcHAKZAi and the Panj- 

 pa'os into 5 sections, thus, (5) Nu'ezai, (6) Ali'zai, (7) IsHA'Kzai, (8) 

 Khu'gia'jS"!, (9) Ma'kd'.* Along our present route, however, only the 

 Achakzais were found in any numbers, but a few of the Popalzais and 

 Barakzais were also found in the Pishin. As far as I know there is but one 

 Popalzai village and one Barakzai village in Pishin, but there are a good 

 many Baralczais scattered about the valley formerly concerned with the late 

 government there. The Popalzais of the valley ai-e of the Sabozai sub- 

 section t 



Tlie Ba'rakzais met with in the Pisliiu are all Mtjhammadzais, J con- 

 nected in some way with the late government of the valley. Sirdar 

 Khu'shdil Kha'n of the royal house seems to have been Governor of the 



* There is also a low class of Duranis called Sagzai found in the Aughisan val- 

 ley. 



f The Sadozais were the old ruling family of the Popalzais and under Asad-ul- 

 LAH (of the Tribe Abdali, sec. Popalzai, subsec. Sadozai) threw off the yoke of the 

 Persian at Herat in 1716, soon after Mir Vais, the Ghilzai, began to assert the inde- 

 pendence of the Afghan nation. On the assassination of Nadir Shah in 1747, Ahmad 

 Khan, a Sadozai (afterwards Ahmad Shah Duvani) gradually conquered for himself 

 all Afghanistan and most of the Panjab, and at his death in 1773 he was ruling from 

 the Sutlaj to the Oxus and from the Himalayas to Khorasan. Till 1793 TAiMu'ii Sha'h 

 his son reigned, but at his death his kingdom was fought for among his children in the 

 way so common in oriental history, mainly resulting in the loss of the Panjab to the 

 Sikhs. The brothers who were ruling at the time of Taimu'u Sha'h's death were 



Zama'n Sha'h in Kabul. 



Hama'un Sha'h in Kandahar. 



Mahmu'd Sha'h in Herat. 



A bba's MfRZA' in Peshawur. 



Ko'handil Mirza' in Kashmir. 

 Of these Zajian Shah and Mahmud Shah obtained the throne of Afghanistan with the 

 usual bloodshed, and after them another brother, the famous Shah Shu.tah-ul-Mulk, 

 about 1809. Mahmiid Shah, however, ousted him and again ruled till 1818, when he 

 was deposed by the Ba'rakzai brothers, sons of Paind Khan, his Wazir, and son of 

 H.Ajf Jaaial Khan (a Muhammadzai Barakzai), the Sirdar who had helped Ahmad 

 Shah in the early days of his sovereignty. Since that date the Mohammadzai Barak- 

 zais have fought among themselves for the throne resulting in the victory and sover- 

 eignty successively ofthe Amirs Dost Mohammad Khan, Sher Ali Khan and YaSiibKhan 

 the bite ruler. In 1839 the first Afghan war, the history of which is of course still fresh 

 in our memories, was undertaken to restore Shah Shujah-ul-mulk. the Sadozai, to his 

 throne at Kabul. The Sadozais are still highly respected, and the Popalzais from which 

 they sprung are the most honoured among Afghan Tribes. During the greater part 

 of the Sadozai ascendancy, the ministers were chosen from the Bame'zai subsection of 

 the Popalzais. The chief other subsections of the Popalzais as far as I could ascertain 

 are (3J Marsingzais, (1) Kha'.vzais, (5) Aiyubzais, (6) Madozais, (7) No'azais. 



I The other subsection of the Barakzais as far as I could ascertain were (2) 



AoHALZAIS, (3) SULIMANZAIS, (4) IVHUNSEl'ZAlS, (5) BaIANZAIS. 



