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of Rawalpindi with the assistance of Nawazish ’All Gakk’har of 
Khanpur. The fortress belonged to the sons of Mubarak Khan, 
chief of Takhtpari. The Gakk’hars of Rawalpindi, headed by 
Amir Khan Firiizal, treacherously fell upon the Khattak garrison 
one clay and slaughtered them all. On this Khojam Quit Khan 
collected a large number of adherents and attacked Rawalpindi. 
Muqarrab Khan came to the rescue of his kinsmen. The fight 
took place at Ghazipur, near the site of the ice-pits in the canton¬ 
ment of Rawalpindi, and the Khattaks were completely routed 
and destroyed. 
Secondly. Muqarrab Khan had had a fight with Chaudhri Mihr, 
a Kassar of Badshahani (zil’ah Jhelam) for having contrary to 
the custom of the country forcibly carried off some of his men who 
had fled to Muqarrab Khan and had found an asylum in his 
dominions. The Chaudhri was killed, and his property given up 
to pillage. 
Thirdly. Muqarrab Khan went as an ally of Da wan Ahmad Khan 
Gakk’har of Mirpur against Asalat Khan Chib of Mauza’ Punir. 
The Chibs were vauquished and their country was devastated. 
Fourthly. Muqarrab Khan espoused the cause of Ahmad Khan 
in a dispute between the latter and Mulli Klian Mangral of Saila 
Kotla, ’Ilaqah of Jammti. The Mangrals were defeated and 
Malik Khan killed. 
Fifthly. Muqarrab Khan accompanied Nadir Shah in 1738 to 
Hindustan, was present at the battle of Karnal (February, 1739), 
and then went on to Dilili, where he was confirmed in his posses¬ 
sions of Dangali and Pharwalah, and on Nadir Shah’s return to 
Kabul, he conferred on Muqarrab Khan at Lahor the title of 
Nawab. 
Lastly. The Sikhs who were rising into importance had in 
1752 under their leaders Chart Singh and Gurbakhsh Singh come 
as far as SayyidKasran andBasalf, and had plundered those towns. 
They compelled Muqarrab Khan to return from Lahor and to 
yield up his possessions beyond the Chanab. They next attacked 
him at Gujrat, where he was slain in 1761, fighting desperately 
at the head of his men. The Sikhs then annexed the whole of 
his territories up to the river Jhelam, 
