AFGHANISTAN AFFARS.
THE AMEER’S MODESTY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi
London, April 8, Habibullah is allowing Sunnites of Central Asiatic Russia to travel through Afghanistan, going to Mecca. The Novoe Vrernya suggests that if properly approached the Ameer wou[d agree to the appointment of a diplomatic agent at Kabul; Haddah Mullah has arrived at Kabul, and congratulated the Ameer on his succession. It was suggested that as Abdurrahman was called “A Light of the Faith,” be should be denominated ‘ ‘Hope of the Faith.” Habibullah declined, saying that he had not earned the title.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 9 April 1902, Page 2
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