1 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AFGHAN CHIEF. 447
2 dressed to Kour Nao Nihal Singh, drawing
3 his attention to the proclamation which had
4 been issued on the reduction of Ali Masjid,
5 indicating the leading persons in Khaibar,
6 who, by their late conduct, had proved them-
7 selves hostile to the interests of the Shah,
8 and requesting that the Kour would require
9 his officers to desist from carrying on the
10 communications in which they were engaged,
11 without a due regard either to the obliga-
12 tions of their duty to the British Govern-
13 ment or to that of his Majesty. At the
14 same time Shah Zada Taimur was advised to
15 address letters in the name of his father to all
16 the chiefs of the places not inserted in the
17 tripartite treaty as helonging to the Sikh Go-
18 vernment, informing them .of the restoration
19 of the Shah to the throne of Kabul, and claim-
20 ing their allegiance to him as their rightful
21 Sovereign. The object of thiese letters was to
22 put the people on their guard against the
23 deceptive plan of the Sikhs; but the disaf-
24 fected had hesitated not to yield a ready ear
25 to their proposals, as the course of events and