IOR/L/PS/7/42 ff.373-382

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Scope and content : Printed copies of two letters from Lieutenant Colonel Sardar Muhammad Afzal Khan, British Agent at Kabul, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, dated 7 and 10 October 1884. Among other matters, acknowledges receipt of a letter from the Viceroy to the Amir; records the Amir's intention of going to Kohistan; the Amir's intention of sending three men to India, 'with a view to having them instructed in the art of electric and gas lights and in the process of melting iron'; the Amir's desire that miners should be sent from India to Afghanistan, since 'I am greatly distressed for want of miners...The country abounds in minerals of different kinds. I now wish the British authorities to be so good as to send me 2 miners and 2 sculptors'; the execution of Atik-ullah Khan, a Durrani of Kandahar.