The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . l ; Nizam taking refuge with theBritish aQ-ent in Gilo^it. Afzul-ul-lNIulk was anxiousto draw still closer the ties that bound him to theEnglish, and asked that an officer might be sent toreside permanently in Chitral. Before, however, anyarrangement could be made he was killed, after areign of a very few months, by his uncle, Sher Afzul,who, coming up stealthily from Cabul, attacked thefort by night, and killed him during the niclcc. Nizam-ul-Mulk at once hurried to Chitral fromGilgit, and succeeded in ousting Sher Af
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . l ; Nizam taking refuge with theBritish aQ-ent in Gilo^it. Afzul-ul-lNIulk was anxiousto draw still closer the ties that bound him to theEnglish, and asked that an officer might be sent toreside permanently in Chitral. Before, however, anyarrangement could be made he was killed, after areign of a very few months, by his uncle, Sher Afzul,who, coming up stealthily from Cabul, attacked thefort by night, and killed him during the niclcc. Nizam-ul-Mulk at once hurried to Chitral fromGilgit, and succeeded in ousting Sher Afzul,who again fled to Cabul, and Nizam-ul-Mulk be-came mehtar. He was an agreeable, cultivatedman, with many European tastes, but he was B 2 4 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN weak, and not of oood character even accordino- toChitrali ideas, and his habit of drinking to excessahenated from him the more fanatical of his subjects,to whom, beinof Mahommedans, wine is strictly for-bidden. He, like his brother, asked that a politicalofficer might reside in Chitral territory ; and Captain. CHITRAL FORT, SHOWING iiAZAAK IULITILAL OFKILKK S HOUSE IX THE DISTANCE. Younghusband, with an escort of Sikhs, was accord-ingly sent to Mastuj, which is a fort in UpperChitral sixty-six miles to the north of Chitral was in 1893, directly after Nizams arrangement worked well, and in Novemberof last year the mehtar, probably not feeling him-self very secure, begged that the head-quarters of ASSASSINATION OF NIZAM-UL-MULK 5 the resident political officer, who happened at thattime to be Lieutenant Gurdon, might be shiftedfrom MastLij to Chitral. But while the ques-tion was still under determination, the mehtar wasmurdered. There is a quaint Afghan proverb that kingssleep upon an ant-heap. They certainly do inChitral. The history of the succession is one longrecord of treachery and assassination. Nizam-ul-Mulk, who with all his faults was not a cruel manlike his father, had neglected
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