MILITARY HISTORY OF PAKISTAN.

Artical:Mughal Empire.

See also Mughal Army:

form the 16th to the 19 th cendury the formidable mughal empire covered much of india in 1739 the persian emeror neder shab in vadad india defeated the mughal empire muhammad sbab and occupied most of balochistan and the indus plain after. nadir shah death the kingdom of  afghanistan was eastablished in 1747 by one of his generals ahmad shah abadil and included kashmir pershwar daman multan sindh and punjab in the south a succession of atonomous dynasties had asserted the independence of sindh from the end aurangzeb regin most of balochistan came under the inflnece of the khan of kalat apart from the end of aurangzeb regin most of balochistan came under the inflnce of the khan of kalat apart from some coastal areas such as gawadar wich were ruled by the sultan of oman.  The sikh confederacy 1748-1799 was a group of small states in the punjab that empreged in a political vacum created by rivalry between the mughals afghans and persians.

The confederacy drove out the mughals repelled several afghan invasions and in 1764 captured lahore however after the retreat of ahamd shah abduil the confederacy suffered instabilly as disput and rivlries emergad the sikh empire 1799-1849was formed on the foundations of the confederacy bu rangit sing who proclamied himself sarkar warla and was referred toas the maharaja of lahore. His empire eventvally extended as far west as the khyber pass and as far south as multan amongst his conquests were kashmir in 1819 and pershawar 1834 although the afghans made two attemrts to recover peshwar agter the majaraja death empire was weaked by internal divisions and political mismanagcment the british annexd the sikh empire in 1849 two anglo sikh wars.