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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.5.3

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 61.5.3

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61.5.3

and at the time when Islem Shah, had sent troops against the Ghakkars and the Janoha party who were strongly entrenched on the banks of the river Behut, he himself was occupied in building the fortress of Mangarh; and Kamran Mirza, after fighting many battles with Muhammad Humayun Padshah, fled from Kabul and took refuge with Salim Shah, in the hopes that he would give him reinforcements which would enable him to capture Kabul, in the (vain) expectation that the water which had flowed away would return to its source. When Islem Shah heard this tidings, he selected from his army the notorious Hamunil Baqqal, who in those clays, in virtue of this friendly foretokening these, had been promoted from being overseer of the market to a position of confidence, and sent him with another body to the neighbourhood of Rohtas to meet Mirza, and although Islam Shah in his own mind thought this a reason for increased confidence in Mirza, being led to this by the want of confidence he had in the Afghans as a tribe, and the entire trust he reposed in Isa Khan. But Mirza himself made light of this, and recognising that there were dregs in the very first draught of the cup was unwilling to come in person. Verse