The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.97

v3.c24.97

Mīrzā Haidar, aided by Abdāl Mākarī and Zangī Chakk, occupied himself with the administration of his easily won kingdom, while Kājī Chakk fled to Delhi and sought aid of Sher Shāh, who placed at his disposal 5000 horse. He returned to Kashmīr in 1541, but was defeated by Mīrzā Haidar and found an asylum in Baramgalla, where he was joined, in 1543, by his kinsman Zangī Chakk, who had become suspicious of Haidar's attitude towards him. An attempt to recover Srīnagar was defeated in 1544, and they were compelled to return to Baramgalla, where, in 1545, Kājī Chakk and his son Muhammad died of fever. In the following year Zangī Chakk and his son Ghāzī attacked a force under Haidar's officers, and both were killed. These opportune casualties among his enemies allowed Haidar leisure to receive with due honour a mission from Kāshghar, his own country, and to lead into Kishtwār an expedition which was compelled to retreat after suffering heavy losses and accomplishing nothing. Expeditions to Rājāorī and the region beyond Bāltistān were more successful, and these districts were annexed in 1548.