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Shah Portrait Epithet Name (Birth-Death) Took office Left office Time in office Shah Wali Khan. شاه والی خان (d. 1772) 1747 1772 25 years Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747–1772) Timur Shah Durrani (1772–1793) Hajji Jamal Khan Barakzai. حاجی جمال خان بارکزی (1719–1772) 1772 1772 <1 year Rahimdad Khan. رحیمداد ...
Coin of Timur Shah Durrani as Nizam of the Punjab, minted in Lahore, dated 1757/8. After his father, Ahmad Shah Durrani's death, he fought his brother Humayun Mirza for the throne, with Humayun supported by Shah Wali Khan. Shah Wali was killed by Timur Shah as he attempted to ride into his camp and beg for peace and mercy.
Zaman Shah Durrani, (c. 1770 – 1844) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1793 until 1800. He was the grandson of Ahmad Shah Durrani and the fifth son of Timur Shah Durrani. An ethnic Pashtun like the rest of his family and Durrani rulers, Zaman Shah became the third King of Afghanistan.
Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (Pashto: احمد شاه دراني; Persian: احمد شاه درانی), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (Pashto: احمد شاه ابدالي), was the first Shah and founder of the Durrani Empire, and is often regarded as the founder of modern Afghanistan.
Timur Shah was born in December 1746, [2] [1] in Mashhad. [8]He received the city of Sirhind as a wedding gift under his governorship, and was later given the title of Viceroy of Punjab, Kashmir and the Sirhind district in 1757 [8] (when he was only 11 years old), by his father Ahmad Shah Durrani for one year, from May 1757 until April 1758.
Shah Wali Khan decided to give-up on capturing the Sikh women and children and the faction of the army he commanded re-joined the main Afghan army. [35] The main Dal Khalsa forced withdrew from the pitched battle near the Sutlej as they now knew their women, children, and elderly were vulnerable to further attacks so they reunited with the ...
Portrait of Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Durrani c.1757. Ahmad Shah Durrani, the ruler of the Durrani Empire, embarked on numerous campaigns into India during his reign. In 1747, he launched his first invasion, seizing Kabul and Peshawar from the Mughals before advancing into the Punjab. After defeating the Mughals at Lahore, Ahmad Shah met the ...
Ahmad Shah Durrani, who is considered the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan, belonged to the Abdali tribe. In 1747 after establishing the Durrani Empire based in Kandahar, he adopted the epithet Shāh Durr-i-Durrān, "King, Pearl of Pearls," and changed the name of his Tareen Abdali tribe to "Durrani" after himself. [1] [2]