1 184 OBJECT OF THE PLAN PROPOSED.
2 privileges in the event of their services proving
3 of real atility in securing the restoration of the.
4 Shah. The principal object of recommending
5 Lieutenant Mackeson to follow the plan pro;
6 posed, was to show ourselves in a part of the
7 country where active operations were not
8 likely to be expected by the enemy, and to.
9 relieve, by the presence of a British officer,
10 the power which Mahomed Akbar Khan at
11 Jalalabad, and Mahomed Afzal in Kuram,.
12 partly possessed by their position, of control-
13 ling the actions of the chiefs, who were well
14 affected to the royal cause in that quarter..
15 Although it was not yet certain on what: plan
16 we might be obliged to act with a view of
17 making our co-operation on the side of Pe-
18 shawr as ‘effective as possible with reference
19 to the advance of the Shah and our troops from
20 Shikarpore, to which we were told that every
21 other plan was to be subsidiary, yet, from the
22 present state of our information, the following
23 is the mode which was explained as most likely
24 to be carried out with the head-quarters of the
25 Shah Zada.