Campaign against Sultan Masudi Hazaras

16th century campaign

Date	1505
Location	Maidan Wardak part of Hazarajat, Afghanistan
Result	Successful operations against the Hazaras.

Belligerents

Timurids of Kabul

Sultan Masudi Hazaras

Commanders and leaders

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur

Campaigns of Babur

1st Samarkand
2nd Samarkand
3rd Samarkand
Sar-e-Pul
Uzbek Conquest of Samarkand (1501)
Akhsi
Kabul
Masudi Hazaras
1st India
Qalati Ghilji
2nd Turkomen Hazaras
Ghilji
1st Kandahar
2nd Kandahar
Eastern Afghanistan
2nd India
Mohmand
Mughal Rebellion
Ab Darrah
Kul Malek
Ghazdewan
Bajaur
Pharwala
Milwat
Panipat
Sambhal
Gwalior
Khanwa
Chanderi
Ghaghra

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After the conquest of Kabul, Babur had imposed a large contribution of horses and sheep on the Sultan Masudi Hazaras and sent collectors to receive it. However, his collectors returned unsuccessful. The Hazaras refused to pay as they did not recognize Babur as their legitimate sovereign. Several times before they had been guilty of depredations on the roads of Ghazni and Gardez. Babur decided to subdue the Hazaras in what is now Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan.

Babur took the field for the purpose of falling on them by surprise and having advanced by way of Maidan Shar he cleared the pass of Nirkh District by night and by the time of Fajr prayers, fell upon the Hazaras in the territory of Chatu and defeated them. He then levied the taxes on them and returned by way of Sang Surakh. Jahangir Mirza II took leave to go to Ghazni while Babur returned to Kabul.