ABSTRACT
The raiding into Dawar, Bannu and Kohat from across the border in Khost mentioned in chapter nine continued in the early twentieth century. It became sufficiently serious for the government to send regular troops back to Miranshah in 1910 and establish militia posts at Spinwam and Shewa, from where they could cover the raiders’ main route to the plains. Some difficulties with the Kabul Khels in 1913, in which the Mullah Powindah appears to have been involved, were quite easily dealt with. During World War I the Utmanzais of northern Waziristan as a whole were relatively quiet, and when it ended the local officers proposed to double their allowances as a reward. 1
