Kalat to provide safe passage and supplies for the British expedition for a “substantial fee”, as described by Jonathan lee. Macnaghten, however, did not trust Mehrab Khan, and while Burnes was negotiating a deal between them and Mehrab Khan, Burnes wrote to Auckland, accusing him of being an “Implacable enemy” and urged the Governor to allow the annexation of towns they would take along the army's supply route. Auckland refused this request, however Macnaghten was able to get his way, as in November 1839, he accused Mehrab Khan of duplicity and cutting the army's supply line, insisting he had broke their agreement. The Bombay division, on its way back to India, was sent to attack Kalat, sacking the city, as Mehrab Khan and many of the cities principal leaders were slain. The regions captured were put under Shah Shuja's realm. The expedition's next challenge was the Khojak pass, another formidable barrier even more worse than the Bolan pass. The British Expedition fought their way up the narrow defile, where local Ghilzai and Baluch tribesmen had blocked with stones as barriers. On the Kandahar side of the pass, Kohan Dil Khan and a force of 1,500 tribal levies were preparing to attack as the British expedition entered the plains. Fortunately for the British, the army did not have to fight their way to Kandahar, as Hajji Khan Kakar, a man who Dost Mohammad Khan expelled from Kabul and who had joined forces with the Kandahar sardars opened contact with Shah Shuja, offering to defect to his cause for the post of Mukhtar al-Daula, one of the most powerful positions in his kingdom. Shah Shuja agreed to these terms and Hajji Khan Kakar defected to his side with those loyal to him. Upon this, Kohan Dil Khan and the other Dil brothers fled to Girishk. Shah Shuja and the British conquer Kandahar, and March for Ghazni (25 April-23 July 1839) On 25 April 1839, Shah Shuja entered Kandahar unopposed, with Macnaghten writing to Auckland that the king was “received with feelings nearly amounting to adulation” according to Jonathan Lee's depiction. Though other officers had reported a lack of public enthusiasm following Shah Shuja's return. On 8 May, the British and Sepoy troops staged a grand review and crowned Shah Shuja after a 21-gun salute. A column was sent to search for and capture the Dil brothers, but they had escaped and rejected