<P> Ubaid Allah's group was met by the Indo - German - Turkish mission to Kabul in December 1915 . Led by Oskar von Niedermayer and nominally headed by Raja Mahendra Pratap, it included in its members Werner Otto von Hentig, the German diplomatic representative to Kabul, as well as, Barkatullah, Champak Raman Pillai and other prominent nationalists from the Berlin group . The mission, along with bringing members of the Indian movement right to India's border, also brought messages from the Kaiser, Enver Pasha and the displaced Khedive of Egypt, Abbas Hilmi expressing support for Pratap's mission and inviting the Amir to move against India The mission's immediate aim was to rally the Amir against British India and to obtain from the Afghan Government a right of free passage . </P> <P> Although the Amir refused to commit for or against the proposals at the time, it found support amongst the Amir's immediate and close political and religious advisory group, including his brother Nasrullah Khan, his sons Inayatullah Khan and Amanullah Khan, religious leaders and tribesmen . It also found support in one of Afghanistan's then most influential newspaper, the Siraj al - Akhbar, whose editor Mahmud Tarzi took Barkatullah as an officiating editor in early 1916 . In a series of articles, Tarzi published a number of inflammatory articles by Raja Mahendra Pratap, as well as publishing increasingly anti-British and pro-Central articles and propaganda . By May 1916 the tone in the paper was deemed serious enough for The Raj to intercept the copies . A further effort resulted in the establishment in 1916 of the Provisional Government of India in Kabul . </P> <P> Although hopes of the Amir's support were more or less non-existent, the Provisional Government of India was formed in early 1916 to emphasise the seriousness of intention and purpose . The government had Raja Mahendra Pratap as President, Barkatullah as Prime Minister and Ubaid al Sindhi as the Minister for India, Maulavi Bashir as War Minister and Champakaran Pillai as Foreign Minister . It attempted to obtain support from Tsarist Russia, Republican China, Japan . Support was also obtained from Galib Pasha, proclaiming Jihad against Britain . </P> <P> Following the February Revolution in Russia in 1917, Pratap's Government is known to have corresponded with the nascent Soviet Government . In 1918, Mahendra Pratap had met Trotsky in Petrograd before meeting the Kaiser in Berlin, urging both to mobilise against British India . Under pressure from the British, Afghan cooperation was withdrawn and the mission closed down . However, the mission, and the offers and liaisons of the German mission at the time had profound impact on the political and social situation in the country, starting a process of political change that ended with the assassination of Habibullah in 1919 and the transfer of power to Nasrullah and subsequently Amanullah and precipitating the Third Anglo - Afghan War that led to Afghan Independence . </P>

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