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2 DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY.
3 Sbddozye (the King^s tribe). Timoiir Shauh put the grand vizier
4 to de«th» and the measure WM never blamed ; Shauh Mahmood's
5 execotibn of Meer Allum Buum . (the head of the Noonyes)f mm
6 condemned for its injustice, not for its illegality ; but the execution
7 of Wuffadar Khaun Suddozje and his brothers, by the same prince
8 is still universally reprobatedt at contrary to the fimdamental lawa of
9 the state.
10 The King has the- direction of religious affairs, but the national
11 religion being firmly established, he has little room for interference.
12 The rights whidi the Afghaua nation possess over the conquered
13 provinces and other dependencies of the state, are entirely, vested in
14 the down-
15 Bendee tlie direct powers thus poMeaaed by the Ehtgf it ia obviona
16 he mint derive mudi ipfltience fimn the exeiciie of them.
17 Id the policy of the Court of Giubol towards ittt'own salgediit the.
18 inoat ttriking ol^jeet is' the doae connectioii of the ffing.with the'
19 Doorauiieea, end rivaby between him and the ariatoencj of tibat
20 liibe. It IB the King's poHcy to keep' the Dooraimeea in aalQectiaii
21 to' bimaell^ wiiile be euka (hem over the other Afghauns.
22 For thia pmpoae* be proteota the Tta^iks, and aU others whose
23 power he can use to depress the nobles, without endaiigeri]^ the
24 ascendancy of his tnl>ei His policy towards the Dooraonee lords,
25 the Taujiks, and the Aighaun tribes respectively, resembles that of a
26 King of Scotland towards the herons, the buigessesy and the clans of
27 tlie Highlands.
28 The King's object with the Alghauu tribes is, to get men fiora the
29 western, and money from the eastern ; with the prov inces also, the
30 practice of the government has been to exact iittle from those in the
31 west, and use them for defence alone ; but to avail itself of the r^
32 aonroea of the.eartem provinces, and of the means they atfbided fir
33 farther, extension of temtoiy.
34 b like mamier in foreign policy the.A4^ianiia have aheim. no dfr
35 aire for weatera cmqpeat llieir yknn townda "Btnm and Tooii*
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