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state. What followed the martyrdom was an immediate manifestation of Allah's indignation. Later, and contrary to general expectations~ every single individual who had a hand in the plot felt Allah's exemplary wrath. An accident occurred whilst Habeebulla Khan was on a hunting expedition and he died as a result of a bullet which became embedded in his head. After him Nasrulla Khan became the absolute Monarch. However, shortly afterwards Ameer Amanulla overthrew his throne and Nasrulla Khan himself was shackled and kept in solitary confinement in exactly the same way as he had ordered for the Sahibzada, (Amanulla had Nasrulla's only son assassinated and then began to live with his daughter without a formal Nikah) Then Bacha Saqqa (water carrier) toppled Amanulla's government and he escaped leaving this woman behind. No one knows 'What eventually happened to Nasrullah afterwards. It is however known that his son was cruelly murdered and he himself breathed his last while still a prisoner. It is said that in his last days he went completely mad. This way his end was admonitory and a lesson. Abdul Ghani, the Punjabi from Gujrat who had taken a leading part in the plot and who had been an extremely popular doctor in the palace, was sent~nced to eleven years rigorous imprisonment. Rigorous imprisonment in Afghanistan bore no resemblance whatsoever to imprisonment under the British rule. As against a month and a half's imprisonment of the martyr, the doctor had to endure being confined for eleven years. While he was in prison his son was murdered in Kabul and at the end of his term of imprisonment he was exiled. 10