In 1893 an agreement was made between the amir Abdurrahman and Sir Mortimer Durand as representative of the British Government determining the frontier line from Chandak in the valley of the Kunar, twelve miles north of Asmar, to the Persian border.
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Nasarudin had two sons, called amir and Bantilan, of whom the former was named as successor to the two brothers, and on their deaths ascended the throne.
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Bantilan and his brother amir finally quarrelled, and the latter was driven from Sulu to seek refuge in the island of Basilan, where he became sultan.
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