One day, at the age of twelve or thirteen, he wanted to see if his small-caliber gun was powerful enough to kill a man, so he shot his servant. The man died, the teenager laughed. The murder was so flagrant his father had no choice but to punish the boy by putting him in prison. But any fellow who can kill a man just to see if his gun works is going to prove useful to someone: his father released him from prison after a year and, by the time he was seventeen, made him one of his major commanders. Later his father rebelled against Sher Ali but lost the contest. When he went into exile north of
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