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Zaman Shah's campaign of Punjab in 1796 against the Sikhs, led to capture of Lahore in January 1797, [28] without any opposition as the Sikh chiefs retired to Amritsar to protect the holy city. [29] Zaman Shah progressed towards Amritsar on January 13, 1797, where he was defeated by the Sikhs, 10 km away from the city. [ 30 ]
The Battle of Gujrat (1797) was fought between the forces of the Durrani Empire led by Ahmad Khan Shahanchibashi and the Sikh forces led by various Sardars. After Zaman Shah's third failed invasion of Punjab, he left Shahanchibashi as governor of the Rohtas Fort and the region between the Jehlum and Indus rivers.
After Ahmad Shah's final invasion of the Punjab in 1767, he left Lahore which was re-captured by the Sikhs. For more than three decades, Sikhs consolidated their power in areas of the Punjab, though facing repeated invasion attempts from other Afghan emperors such as Timur Shah Durrani , and Zaman Shah Durrani .
Zaman Shah Durrani being enthroned Silver rupee of Zaman Shah Durrani, struck at the Peshawar mint, dated 1797. Zaman Shah was born as the son of Timur Shah Durrani. The year of his birth is disputed however. Fayz Muhammad gives 1767 as his year of birth, [2] while Noelle-Karimi gives the year as 1770. [3]
The Sikhs became particularly troublesome, and after several unsuccessful efforts to subdue them, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, Ranjit Singh, as his governor of Lahore. This "one-eyed" warrior would later become an implacable enemy of Pashtun rulers in Afghanistan.
Zaman Shah Durrani being enthroned. After the death of Timur Shah, three of his sons, the governors of Kandahar, Herat and Kabul, contended for the succession. Zaman Shah, governor of Kabul, held the field by virtue of being in control of the capital, and became shah at the age of twenty-three. Many of his half-brothers were imprisoned on their ...
On 24 November 1798 Zaman Shah, occupying the city of Lahore, sent a force of 10,000 men to Amritsar. Ranjit Singh with Sahib Singh commanding 500 troops were patrolling the Lahore road near Amritsar. They saw the Afghans and immediately engaged in battle. Meanwhile, some Sikhs from Amritsar joined Ranjit Singh with 2,000 additional troops.
He was the 11th son of Payinda Khan, chief of the Barakzai Pashtuns, who was killed in 1799 by King Zaman Shah Durrani. [3] At the beginning of his rule, the Afghans lost their former stronghold of Peshawar Valley in March 1823 to the Sikh Khalsa Army of Ranjit Singh at the Battle of Nowshera.