Jafar Khan, Mirza
Kizilbash.
An official in the Octroi Department at Kabul. Dismissed in May 1875 at the
same time as Ahmad Ali Khan, the Superintendent of that Department. Mirza Jafar
was said to have been a refugee in Kashmir when Amir Muhammad Azam Khan ruled
in Kabul, and to have received great consideration from the Maharaja of
Kashmir, whose “friend and agent” he was at Kabul. Placed in confinement at
Kabul after denying that he was aware of the details of the property left by
the deceased Naib Muhammad Alam Khan. Released and placed in charge of the
Octroi Collections. In 1880 he was again placed in confinement by Amir Abdur
Rahman and ordered to pay a fine of Rs. 50,000. His estates were confiscated,
but again restored and in March 1881 he took up his old appointment as Customs
Officer. Expelled from Afghanistan and went to Peshawar in April 1884.
Ludwig W. Adamec, Historical and Political Who's Who
of Afghanistan, Graz, Austria, 1975, p. 171.
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