Muhammad Reza
Kizilbash.
Mirakhor. Governor of Tashkurghan in northern Afghanistan. One of the few men
of any influence in Afghan Turkestan who were on friendly terms with Governor
Mir Alam Khan. Acted as Mir Alam Khan’s agent. Mir Alam was more than once said
to have been anxious to secure Muhammad Reza’s appointment as Governor of
Badakhshan. On the fall of Maimana in 1876, Muhammad Reza’s son was appointed
Governor of that town. In 1879 Deputy Governor of Turkestan, and in the following
year was imprisoned by Sardar Muhammad Ishaq Khan.
Ludwig W. Adamec, Historical and Political Who's Who
of Afghanistan, Graz, Austria, 1975, pp. 199―200.
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