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the Sultans of Kashmir. 
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turned in his favour. Shall Abulmuali seeing this state of things fled 
without further resistance. In his flight his horse became very tired, but 
a Mughal whom he came across gave him a fresh one and took the tired 
one and stood with it on the road. When the Kashmiris who were 
pursuing Abulmuali came up to the place he held them all at bay for 
some time until, his quiver becoming empty, they rushed upon him in a 
mass and slew him. During the delay Abulmuali escaped. Ghazi Khan 
returning arrived in Badukhi and every Mughal whom they brought to 
him he beheaded. But the Hafiz Mirzd Husaini who was from the 
singers of Humayun he did not slay on account of his good singing. 
After this Kasrat Khan Ohakk was liberated from prison, and sent into 
the service of Jalal-ud-Din Akbar, where becoming acquainted with 
Bairam Khan he tried to ingratiate himself in his favour. 
In 966 A. H. a change came over the disposition of Grhazi Elian 
Chakk and resulted in much oppression and violence to the people who 
all became opposed to him. He by chance heard that his son Haidar 
Chakk wished to take the kingdom of Kashmir from him. So he called 
his wakil Muhammad Janid and Bahadur Bihut and sent them to 
admonish his son and advise him to put such imaginations out of his 
head. They went to him and petitioned him. Bub Haidar Chakk 
snatched a dagger out of Muhammad Janid’s girdle and buried it in his 
stomach. People flocked in and arrested Haidar and took him to his 
father who ordered him to be executed and his body to be suspended on 
a door in Zinagarh. All who joined him also were executed. 
In 967 A. H. Mirza Qarra Bahadur came from India with a large 
army and nine elephants. For three months he stayed in Lalpur. 
From the Kashmiris Kasrat Chakh, Fath Chakk and others, and from 
the Gliakkars also a large body joined him. He evidently hoped that a 
lot of Kashmiris would join him. But meanwhile the leaders who had 
come in deserted him and went over to Ghazi Khan. By reason of this 
desertion there was much indecision in the invading army. Grhazi Khan 
coming from Kashmir arrived in Naurozkot and sent his infantry against 
the invaders and defeated them. Mirza Qarra fled to the fort of Daira. 
The next day he again fled before the attack of infantry and his elephants 
fell into the enemy’s hands while five hundred Mughals were killed. 
Five } r ears had passed of the reign of Habib Shah when Ghazi Khan 
Chakk determined to put him on one side and unfold the royal banners 
in his own behalf. Ceasing to act therefore in the name of another, he 
ordered the Kliutba to be read and coins to be struck in his own name, 
taking the title of Ghazi Shah. 
(I have never seen a coin of any metal with Habib’s name on it. 
Hone of my numismatic friends have one. And yet he reigned five 
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