Egyptian Sudan 24 Egyptian Sudan Only Before the Egyptian government was forced by the British government to evacuate Sudan, Abd al-Qadir Pasha Helmi, who was the Minister of War in 1885, was offered to return to Sudan to quell the rebellion. He stipulated two conditions for this: the first was that 15,000 soldiers be provided, and the second was that the British government abandon its demand for evacuation. They agreed to the first condition and did not reject the second, because the goal was not to return Sudan to its mother, Egypt, but to evacuate the approximately 40,000 Egyptians and others who were in Sudan. He proved his acceptance of this mission. Abd al-Qadir Pasha ruled Sudan from 1882 to 1883 and managed to curb the opposition and suppress the sedition in Sinai, despite his weak forces. Whenever he requested reinforcements, he was told that the British had dissolved Urabi's army and that Egypt had a second army. However, this did not dampen his spirit until he saw that his successor had reached Khartoum while he was preoccupied with reorganizing Sennar. Abd al-Qadir Pasha did not utter a word that revealed the secret of his dismissal. It is mentioned in the book "Sudan" by its author, Nu'um Bey Shukair, who said, "I asked Abd al-Qadir Pasha: Why were you recalled from Sudan when you were successful in quelling the rebels and restoring peace to its lands?" He replied, "They accused me of aspiring to independence." This "word I do not understand its meaning unless we return to the spirit that prevailed at that time, and that spirit is the spirit of fear of the British remaining in Egypt, to the point that some began to openly advocate using Sudan and its power to expel the British from the Nile Valley. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani pretended to do so and called for it, and invited envoys to go and invigorate the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad and organize a force for this purpose. Abd al-Qadir himself felt the sympathy of a group of officials for the Mahdi and the rebels, acting in accordance with this spirit, so he dealt with them. When Lord Salisbury, the founder of Al-Ahram, asked about the Sudanese revolution, he told him, "It is a revolution, a sedition that you, the British, have instigated with your plan and policy."