The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.120

v4.c15.120

Muhammad Hakīm’s invasion of the Punjab, a poor return for the assistance which Akbar had recently given him against Mīrzā Sulaimān of Badakhshān, who had invaded his territories, was instigated by some malcontents and mischief-makers at Kābul and encouraged by messages from the Uzbeg rebels, who had been in secret communication with him. Believing that the assignees in the Punjab would espouse his cause, he marched on Lahore by way of Bhera, on the Jhelum, but “the foster-father cohort”, Khān Kalān, Qutb-ud-dīn Khān and Sharīf Khān, had assembled their troops and repaired the fortifications and Muhammad Hakīm, encamped in the gardens of Mahdī Qāsim Khān, kept at a respectful distance by the guns of the fortress.