The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.114

v4.c16.114

The state of affairs in the country between Kābul and the Indus was such as to demand the presence of Akbar himself. The neighbourhood of the Khyber Pass was occupied by the *Raushanāīs*, a community of fanatical heretics who had imbibed strange doctrines from a native of Hindūstān, who had settled among the tribes, and regarded brigandage as a religious duty. The road between the Indus and the pass was infested by the Yūsufzāīs of Swāt and Bājaur, and there was one other object which drew Akbar to the Indus, the resolve to annex the kingdom of Kashmīr.