So Jabar Khan was sent to Ghazni with an offer—Shah Shuja could return to the throne, on the condition that under the Sadozai crown Dost Mohammad could continue as wazir, “which situation, by hereditary claim, he had a right to secure.” After all, his half-brother Fatteh Khan had been wazir to Shah Zaman, and his father Payindah Khan was wazir to Shuja’s father, Timur Shah. To Pashtun eyes it was both the customary and the obvious solution to the problem, and Jabar Khan was amazed when the offer was peremptorily turned down by the British.
