Mir Masjidi Khan

Mir Masjidi Khan (died 1841) is one of many celebrated Afghan[1] resistance leaders from Shamali Plain who opposed the installation of Shuja Shah Durrani (or 'Shah Shujah') as Emir of Afghanistan by the Government of British India during the First Anglo-Afghan War. He kept up a fierce struggle against the occupation forces in and around Kabul and Northern Afghanistan, until his death.[2]

  1. ^ Lansford, Tom (2017-02-16). Afghanistan at War: From the 18th-Century Durrani Dynasty to the 21st Century. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-760-4. Mir Masjidi Khan was an Afghan tribal leader who fought the British during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
  2. ^ Lady Florentia Sale, Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan', 1841-42, Pub. 1843, pp.140-141