[5] Shir Muhhamed's son Davron and his cousin Anvar claim that their father and uncle, respectively, never left Turkestan before Civil War and was never imprisoned in Russian jail.

The fact that Shir Muhhamed was released from jail soon after the revolution is confirmed in memoirs of Uzbek emigre Abduhamid Cochar from Adana.

In the fall of 1921, Enver Pasha, in alliance with Korshirmat and Dzhunaid Khan, captured a significant part of the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic.

According to analysts from the Cheka, Korshirmat moved forward and became a prominent figure after the surrender of the Red Army on March 6, 1920, under the Ferganian rebel leader Madamin Bek.

According to the OGPU, during the Second World War (until 1942), Mahmud-bey was the main intelligence-gathering agent in the republics of Central Asia and northern Afghanistan in the interests of Turkish, Japanese and German intelligence services.

The Afghan monarchy behaved with restraint in relation to the numerous formations of Basmachi in the north of the country, since it was sure that in a short time the Soviet Union would be defeated by Germany, and Afghanistan would have a chance to expand its territory, which once belonged to the Emir of Bukhara and Khan of Khiva.

[10] A report from the Middle East Department of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs dated April 4, 1942, noted that a group of Afghan soldiers led by Prince Mohammed Daoud was developing a plan for a military campaign against the USSR.

The Kabul Government, according to Soviet intelligence, was confident that the Red Army units stationed on the Soviet-Afghan border would certainly be transferred to the fronts for battles with Wehrmacht formations.

[10][11] To strengthen relations with the Basmach formations in Northern Afghanistan, King Zahir Shah concluded a secret agreement with the overthrown Emir of Bukhara Seyid Alim Khan who was living in exile in Kabul, which provided for the provision of armed support to Kabul, by the Basmach formations, in the event of clashes with the Red Army.

Hashim Khan suggested that all the kurbashi keep their formations in full combat readiness, pointing out that a convenient moment for an attack on the USSR would be presented after the capture of Moscow and Leningrad by the Wehrmacht.

In August 1941, at the request of the German diplomatic mission, Katsubi, a Japanese attorney, met with Seyid Alim Khan, negotiating for possible cooperation against the USSR.

The former Emir refused to cooperate, but Seyid Alim Khan's entourage and many Kurbashi Basmachi willingly began to interact with intelligence agents of Germany and Japan, who promised large sums of money for organizing partisan activities in the territory of the Soviet Central Asian republics.

In September 1941, the Abwehr instructed the influential Uzbek Kurbashi Mahmud-bek among the Basmachis to create an espionage and sabotage network on both sides of the Soviet-Afghan border.