Dictionary of Indian Biography/Akbar Khan
AKBAR KHAN ( ? –1849)
Eldest son of Dost Mahammad (q.v.), the Amir of Afghanistan : distinguished himself against the Sikhs, and took an active part in the insurrection in Kabul in 1841 against Shah Shuja, the Amir and the British forces : at the conference to which the envoy. Sir W. H. Macnaghten, was invited on Dec. 23, 1841, outside Kabul, he treacherously murdered Macnaghten : the British hostages, including women and children, were given over to him, when the British army retreated from Kabul and was destroyed, in Jan., 1842, by the Afghans and the climate : he treated them chivalrously : he attacked Sale's garrison near Jalalabad, but was beaten off on April 7, 1842, by a force under Havelock : he was again routed, in Aug., 1842, at Tezin by the relieving force under General Pollock : he died 1849, in Kabul, after the restoration of Dost Muhammad.