The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c13.49

v4.c13.49

Any hopes he had entertained of safety in his brother's territory were soon destroyed. Kāmrān assumed the royal title, and struck coin in his own name at Kābul and Qandahār, invaded Badakhshān, as the ruler of that tract still recognised Humāyūn, and when his governor at Qandahār made over that place to Hindāl on his flight from Sind, he besieged the town and on obtaining its surrender despatched Hindāl as prisoner to Kābul and appointed 'Askarī as ruler in his place. He even tried to establish relationship with Shāh Husain by proposing to marry the Shāh's daughter. With these unfavourable prospects before him Humāyūn entered on a difficult wintry march in no way rendered easier by the transport and guides whom Shāh Husain had sent with him. Many of the camels supplied were untrained and threw off their loads or riders at the start; while the guides misled the troops. 'Askarī set the defences of Qandahār in order and wrote to the Baloch chiefs to arrest the emperor, who had a narrow escape and was obliged to abandon his infant son to the precarious mercy of faithless brothers. Avoiding Qandahār he made his way into Persia with many doubts whether a friendless Sunnī ruler who had lost every vestige of sovereignty would find refuge with a bigoted Shīah.