تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 2) — Page 161
جماعت کا فرقہ احمدیہ سے موسوم ہوتا ۱۵۸ Sardar Shirindil Governor of khost to J۔S۔Donald Esquire CIE Officer on special duty, kurraṁ۔After Complements I have persued you, letter of the 17th June you wrote today Sahibzada Latif Jan and Dad Muhammad Khan, Hakim of the chakmannis, have stated that you have no power to do the demarcation beyond the Peiwar Kotal۔But that from the Peiwar Kotal up to Kimatai Sar you are willing to demarcate the boundary along the water shed, and from Kimatai Sar you are willing to continue the boundary along the watershed of that spur which runs down in an eastern direction from Kimatai Sar and up to a spot between the Kharlachi post and the village of Lar Istia۔That from this post which is between the post of Kharlachi and the village of Lar Istia you are willing to demarcate a line which will separate the lands of Kharlachi from those of pathan This will be demarcated in our persence on the spot۔If you really agree to this line please let me know in clear language so that I may understand it My friend sahibzada (Abdul Latif Jan) and Dad Mohammad Khan came and told me that under my instructions they had been to Mr۔Danald's camp۔No۔393 No۔551c,dated28th July1894 From J۔S۔Donald, Esquire, CIE officer on special duty, Kurram to the commissioner and superintendent, Peshawar division۔On the morning of the 27th instant Sahibzada Latif Jan, and agent of the Sardar,s and his right hand man in connection with demarcation operations, returned with my letter and said that the Sardar was puzzled at my having asked so many questions, that the disposition of his highness the Amir was "Barik" (delicate), and that his highness would be very much offended at the sight of so many questions and answers۔The Sahibzada went on to say that the Sardar would be obliged if I could put my questions in a simple form, so that he may understand them۔That though my questions may be clear enough in the English language, some of them had no meaning when rendered into Persian After consultation with the Sahibzada, I drew up another set of three (questions here with submitted)۔The Sahibzada seemed to be pleased with these as he thought the Sardar would understand them better۔As the purport of most of the 20 questions is contained in these three questions, I did not see much difference myself in the two sets of questions, but as the second set pleased the Sahibzada, I told him he might take away both sets and after comparing them carefully see if he could discover any great difference۔No۔526 No۔841C,dated 24th September1894 From J۔S۔Donald Esquire CIR officer on special duty, Kurram to the commissinoner and Suprintendent, Peshawar division۔One of these letters was sent by me to the Sardar on the morning of the 21st instant, and it was brought back to me on the evening of the date by Sahibzada Lafif Jan, a trusted agent of the Sardar۔Latif Jan came to me with Shirindil Khan,s copy of a map which professes to be a tracing of the map of Afganistan on a scale of 1 24 miles and asked me to point out to him where in the Sardar's map differed from my map which was supposed by me to be the Kabul agreement map۔-