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1870.—Mr. Hay ward visits Yasin in March • is well received by the Chief, Mir Vali, but
returns, as he finds the passes on to the Pamir closed by snow—visits the country
a second time in July, after exposing the conduct and breach of treaty of the
Kashmir authorities, and is murdered, apparently without any object, at Darkofc
in Yasin, one stage on to Walchan, by some men in the service of his former
friend, Mir Vali, who, however, soon flies the country in the direction of
Badakhshan, then seeks refuge with the Alchund of Swat and. finally returns to
Yasin, where he is reported to have been well received by P ahlwan. ( Vide page
74). Whilst in Chitral, he was seen by Major Montgomery's Havildar and was
on good terms with Aman.-ul-Mulk, who is supposed, chiefly on the authority of
a doubtful seal, to be the instigator of a murder which was not, apparently, to his
interests and which did not enrich him or Mir Vali with any booty, excepting a
gun and a few other trifles. Much of the property of Mr. Hay ward was recovered
by the Kashmir authorities and a monument was erected by them to his memory
at Gilgit, where- there is already a shrine which is referred to on pages 37 and 41.
1871.—Jthandar Shah, son of Mir Shah, who had again been turned out of the rule of
Badakhshan in October 1869 by Mir Mahmud Shah with the help of the Affghan
troops of Amir Shere All, finds an asylum in Chitral with Aman-ul-Mulk, (whose
daughter had heen married to his son) after having for some time shared the
fortunes of his friend,, the fugitive Abdurrahman Khan of Kabul. (Chitral pays
an annual tribute to the Chief of Badakhshan. in slaves, which it raises either
by kidnapping travellers or independent Kafirs or by enslaving some of its own
Shiah and Kafir subjects—the ruler being of the Sunni persuasion).
1872.—Late accounts are confused, but the influence of Amir Slier All seems to be pressing
through Badakhshan on Chitral and through Bajaur on Swat on the one hand and
on the Kafir races on the other. The Maharajah of Kashmir on the one side and
the Amir of Kabul on the other seem to endeavour to approach their frontiers at
the expense of the intervening Dard and other tribes. Jehandar Shah infests the
Kolab road and would be hailed by the people of Badakhshan as a deliverer
from the oppressive rule of Mahmud Shah, as soon as the Kabul troops were to
withdraw.
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1870.—Mr. Hay ward visits Yasin in March • is well received by the Chief, Mir Vali, but
returns, as he finds the passes on to the Pamir closed by snow—visits the country
a second time in July, after exposing the conduct and breach of treaty of the
Kashmir authorities, and is murdered, apparently without any object, at Darkofc
in Yasin, one stage on to Walchan, by some men in the service of his former
friend, Mir Vali, who, however, soon flies the country in the direction of
Badakhshan, then seeks refuge with the Alchund of Swat and. finally returns to
Yasin, where he is reported to have been well received by P ahlwan. ( Vide page
74). Whilst in Chitral, he was seen by Major Montgomery's Havildar and was
on good terms with Aman.-ul-Mulk, who is supposed, chiefly on the authority of
a doubtful seal, to be the instigator of a murder which was not, apparently, to his
interests and which did not enrich him or Mir Vali with any booty, excepting a
gun and a few other trifles. Much of the property of Mr. Hay ward was recovered
by the Kashmir authorities and a monument was erected by them to his memory
at Gilgit, where- there is already a shrine which is referred to on pages 37 and 41.
1871.—Jthandar Shah, son of Mir Shah, who had again been turned out of the rule of
Badakhshan in October 1869 by Mir Mahmud Shah with the help of the Affghan
troops of Amir Shere All, finds an asylum in Chitral with Aman-ul-Mulk, (whose
daughter had heen married to his son) after having for some time shared the
fortunes of his friend,, the fugitive Abdurrahman Khan of Kabul. (Chitral pays
an annual tribute to the Chief of Badakhshan. in slaves, which it raises either
by kidnapping travellers or independent Kafirs or by enslaving some of its own
Shiah and Kafir subjects—the ruler being of the Sunni persuasion).
1872.—Late accounts are confused, but the influence of Amir Slier All seems to be pressing
through Badakhshan on Chitral and through Bajaur on Swat on the one hand and
on the Kafir races on the other. The Maharajah of Kashmir on the one side and
the Amir of Kabul on the other seem to endeavour to approach their frontiers at
the expense of the intervening Dard and other tribes. Jehandar Shah infests the
Kolab road and would be hailed by the people of Badakhshan as a deliverer
from the oppressive rule of Mahmud Shah, as soon as the Kabul troops were to
withdraw.