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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.
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 ...
Nothing else is heard of Ahmad Shah until 1731–1732, when Zulfiqar Khan was defeated by Nader Shah, forcing both Zulfiqar Khan and Ahmad Shah to flee to Kandahar, where they remained political prisoners of Hussain Hotak. [14] [15] [16] After Nader Shah conquered Kandahar, Ahmad Shah and Zulfiqar Khan were freed. Ahmad Shah spent much of his ...
At that time Atai Khan Baluch, son of the Shah Wali Khan, the Wazir of Abdali, came from Afghanistan with 10,000 cavalry and cut off the supplies to the Marathas. [18] The Marathas at Panipat were surrounded by Abdali in the south, Pashtun tribes ( Yousufzai , Afridi , Khattak ) in the east, Shuja, Atai Khan and others in the north and other ...
The Battle of Kup (part of the Vadda Ghalughara, meaning "greater massacre") was fought on 5 February 1762, between the Afghan forces of Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Sikhs, under the command of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and Charat Singh. [1] [5] [14] [9] Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Afghan forces reached Malerkotla, west of Sirhind. They were met by ...
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 ...