Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum - Early Career

Early Career

In 1887, Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum was appointed Naib Tehsildar and subsequently held several administrative portfolios i.e. Tehsildar, Chief Political Agent of Hazara, Revenue Assistant and Treasury Officer, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Superintendent of the Commissioner's Vernacular Office, Assistant Political Agent Khyber, 'Assistant Political Agent' of Chitral, and then of Khyber Agency and then promoted to Assistant Political Agent of Khyber, FATA, during the period from 1891 to 1919. The Political Agents were Sir Robert Warburton until 1897, and subsequently Sir George Roos-Keppel, until 1908.

In the year 1893 during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary the Durand line between Afghanistan and the British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the Agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost Afghanistan.

From The British Side the camp was Attended by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Assistant Political Agent Khyber.

The Afghanistan was represented by Sahibzada Abdul Latif and the Governor Sardar Shireendil Khan representing the King Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

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