See also: 1912 in Afghanistan

1912 in Afghanistan

See also: 1911 in Afghanistan, other events of 1912, and 1913 in Afghanistan.----The disturbances in the Khost country, which at one time threatened to expand into a general rising, are quieted by the removal of the governor, whose exactions and oppressions are believed to have been the real cause...

, other events of 1913, and 1914 in Afghanistan

1914 in Afghanistan

See also: 1913 in Afghanistan, other events of 1914, and 1915 in Afghanistan.----The relations between the government of India and the amir continue to be cordial. Representations are made regarding serious outrages on the frontier by residents of Afghanistan and by outlaws from British territory...

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Early 1913

In the Khost Valley the Mangal

Mangal

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s and Jadran

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s are again giving trouble, and the leading chief of the Jadrans has to return several hundred rifles to the governor as his tribesmen refuse to fulfil their agreement to render military service. In fact these tribes were never really subdued, and in the nominal pacification of the valley which ended the operations of the Afghan expedition in 1912 it was rather they than the amir who dictated terms. The result of this abrogation of the amir's authority causes much trouble to the British districts adjoining the valley, for the outlaws who carry out their raids are practically safe when they make good their escape into Khost. On other parts of the frontier the amir has carried out his agreement to remove all outlaws to a distance of fifty miles from the frontier, but in Khost his orders are a dead letter.

October 1913

A new conspiracy against the amir is discovered at Kabul. Its leader is Sardar Mohammad Yunus Khan, a grandson of Sardar Shah Khan, who had rebelled against the amir Abdur Rahman Khan

Abdur Rahman Khan

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in the later 1880s. He was allowed by the present amir to return and take up his residence in Kabul. On the discovery of the conspiracy the amir holds a family durbar at which he reproaches Yunus for his ingratitude and condemns him to death. The amir then retires and Yunus is at once set upon, being first stoned and then stabbed to death. Several of his accomplices are executed afterwards.