The Rashīdī History 182.2

182.2

After Mirza Khan had established his power in Badakhshan, he was still trammelled [darmanda] by the hostility of the Uzbeg. Nor was he able to restrain the usurpations of Mirza Aba Bakr. [The country extending] from the upper defiles [tang-i-bala] as far as Sarigh Chupan, had fallen under the jurisdiction of Kashghar. "When your enemies are occupied with each other, sit down at your ease with your friends;" this saying applies to the state of affairs [at that time]. During twelve years, the districts above the upper gorges were outside of Badakhshán, and formed a part of Káshghar. The Khán, therefore, after his conquest of Káshghar, ordered those districts to be divided into [administrative] sections as if they formed part of the province of Kashghar. Thither he sent Mir Beg Muhammad, whose story has been told above, and during [his] government, Wakhán was a jiwára of the Hazáraját of Badakhshán. The people of Badakhshán call the frontier [between Badakhshán and Wakhán] Darázukhán. The Káshghari call it Sárigh Chupán. The people of Darázukhán took violent possession of it and appealed to Mirzá Khán for protection. [They said : " Let us become the subjects of Mirzá Khán."] So Mirzá Khán took possession of the country without hesitation, his claim being that it belonged originally to Badakhshán : nay more, that Badakhshán was but another name for these Hazáraját. Mirzá Abá Bakr had taken it by force.