 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.