Chapter 60 1880 No.60

Affairs at Kandahar For more than six months rumours had been afloat of Ayub Khan's determination to advance on Kandahar; but little attention was paid to them by the authorities at that place until towards the end of May, when a Sirdar, named Sher Ali,1 who had been a few days before formally installed as Wali, or Ruler, of Kandahar, informed the