did not leave and sat to eat. As the meal continued to progress, many of his enemies and the guests took turns insulting and hurling abuse at him. Fateh Khan had then stood and presented himself out as he did not want to stay among all this disrespect toward him, he was pinned toward a tablecloth, and 'Ata Mohammad Khan thrust his dagger into the Wazir's eyes, blinding him. He was then thrown into prison a few days later, where his eyes were plucked out and his eye-sockets were cauterized with a red-hot iron. After months of prison, Fateh Khan was sent to Ghazni to be judged by Shah Mahmud himself. He appeared on trial before Shah Mahmud and many of his enemies from different chiefdoms. Shah Mahmud had ordered Fateh Khan to bring his brothers before him to swear fealty, promising he would spare his life on this condition. Fateh Khan, believing that his brothers would face the same fate as him refused and claimed that he never wanted to usurp the throne from Shah Mahmud. The King retaliated by striking Fateh Khan with his sword, whereupon many other members of the trial had taken turns cutting off Fateh Khan's limbs. Fateh Khan was said to not have uttered a single cry during this. Shah Mahmud had then cut off his head, putting Fateh Khan out of his misery, and his body was disposed of by being placed in a carpet and buried. Fall of Shah Mahmud With the execution of Fateh Khan, Shah Mahmud's power, already fragile, had crumbled. Fateh Khan's brothers, who were prominently dispersed in governorship throughout the empire, rebelled when they heard of what happened. Now determined to finally end the Sadozai Dynasty in Afghanistan. The headship of the Barakzai dynasty, better known as the Mohammadzai, had passed down to Fateh Khan's brother, Mohammad Azim Khan. In further attempts to try to gain support or possibly to replace Shah Mahmud, he tried to enlist the help of Shah Shuja Durrani. But the ex-king had pressed heavy demands, so Azim Khan searched elsewhere, finding another of Timur Shah's sons, Ayub Shah Durrani. Ayub was reported to have said; "Make me king, and permit money to be coined in my name and the whole power and resources of the kingdom may rest with yourself; my ambition will be satisfied with bread, and the title of King". Azim