Ayub Khan's Ambassdors

Ayub Khan's Ambassdors, Abdulla Khan sitting on the right, his son on the left, and Umrjan Sahib Zadah in the centre. The last name is said to have raised all the Ghazi against us at Maiwand.

This photograph is part of the Getty Research Institute's Qandahar Album compiled between 29 November 1880 and 21 April 1881. The photographs were taken while Benjamin Simpson resided in Qandahar as the deputy-surgeon of the South Afghanistan Force during the British withdrawal at the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.