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Save Me From My Friends! Amir Sher Ali Khan of Afghanistan

  SECOND AFGHAN WAR, 1878.  Save Me From My Friends! Amir Sher Ali Khan of Afghanistan endeavours to stand between the Russian bear and the British lion as each eyes the other with suspicion.  English cartoon by Sir John Tenniel, 1878, shortly after the outbreak of the Second Afghan War. Pashto Times Pashto History Blogs. New History Blogs and Cartoons about Pashtuns and Afghan history. Amir Sher Ali Khan, Russia And British Empire.