AFGHANISTAN PLOTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 541, 23 June 1909, Page 7

AFGHANISTAN PLOTS.

AN ACQUITTAL. (By Tclegraiih.-Pross Assoc'iation.-Copyrisht.) Kabul, Juno 21. Dr. Ghani, head of tho India Department in Afghanistan, who was arrested and put on trial on a chargo of complicity in a plot against tho Ameer, has been acquitted. . [Dr. Abdul .Ghani, a native of India, and head - of tho Educationnl Ilopartinont in Afghanistan, was arrested in. April on tho charge of complicity in tho:allcged plot against the Ameer. Subsequent.advices- from Simla stated :-"Bighte3n ■■;• persons, ;■ mostly youna Sardars,, are under arrest at Jalalabad the ringleader being a,brother of tho Governor of Laghman. These arc ,being sent to ' Kabul, where they will'bo tried with others nrresteci there. The Aaneer inUnds to Simmon the principal Mullahs of Afghanistan to deelaro what IB tho puniehment under Mohammedan aw of the conspiratorp. Military .offibers related to the latter. are 'being sent to Herat, their places being filled by loyal officers from Kandahar. . A curious proclamation is reported to have been iesued at Kabul, declarine the rumonr untrue that Bibi Halima (wife of the late Ameori.and hqr. eon UmarJan were coiiccrnod in the, conspiracy* Fonr Punjabis remdm under arrest at Kabul, where tho HeirApparent is conduoUnff a secret inquiry ponding .. the arrival of .the Ameor. Special iprecau, tions are being taken in tho Royal honsohold against poisoned food."] : ■ . ,