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| Ahmed Shah Abdali |
Ahmad Shah was born in 1722
Ahmad Shah enlisted as a young soldier in the military of the Afsharid kingdomand quickly rose to become a commander of four thousand Abdali Pashtun soldiers.[5] After the death of Nader Shah Afshar of Persia in June 1747, Abdali became the King of Afghanistan. Rallying his Pashtun tribes and allies, he pushed east towards the Mughal and the Maratha Empire of India, west towards the disintegrating Afsharid Empire of Persia, and north toward theKhanate of Bukhara. Within a few years, he extended Afghan control from Khorasan in the west to Kashmir and North India in the east
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