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Eastern Afghanistan Operations | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Timurids of Kabul |
Afghans Siah-Posh Kafirs? Safed-Posh Kaffirs? | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur | ? |
Eastern Afghanistan Operations was when Uzbek Khan and Muhammad Shaybani surrounded Kandahar, Babur found his developing Kingdom of Kabul in danger. He feared that Kabul would be the next target of the Uzbeks. Having consulted with his men, he decided the only way out was to leave to India. Babur's second Indian expedition (as considered by many Muslim historians, including Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak), became an operation monitoring Kabul, traveling around eastern provinces of Afghanistan to subdue rebellious Afghans and plunder towns and villages for supplies for his army's survival.