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<p class="C1">&#65279Y&#256R MUHAMMAD <u>KH</u>&#256N (d. 1829), the B&#257rakza&#299 ruler of Pesh&#257war. In November 1818, Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh seized the city from him and placed it in the charge of Jah&#257&#7749d&#257d <u>Kh</u>&#257n, another of the B&#257rakza&#299 brothers, but no sooner did Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh return to Lahore than Y&#257r Muhammad <u>Kh</u>&#257n emerged from his hiding, expelled Jah&#257&#7749d&#257d <u>Kh</u>&#257n and resumed control of Pesh&#257war. In June 1822, Y&#257r Muhammad <u>Kh</u>&#257n agreed to become a tributary of Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh but soon thereafter Muhammad Az&#299m <u>Kh</u>&#257n, the K&#257bul Waz&#299r, expelled him from Pesh&#257war. Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh defeated the K&#257bul Waz&#299r in the battle of Naushehr&#257 on 14 March 1823, and installed Y&#257r Muhammad <u>Kh</u>&#257n, governor of Pesh&#257war. Shortly afterwards, Sayyid Ahmad Barelav&#299 proclaimed a holy war against the Sikhs, Y&#257r Muhammad <u>Kh</u>&#257n joining hands with him. A battle was fought between the <u>Gh</u>&#257z&#299s and the Sikhs on 21 December 1826, at Ako&#7771&#257, 18 km from Attock, across the River Indus. The <u>Gh</u>&#257z&#299s were repulsed and Pesh&#257war was reoccupied. Y&#257r Muhammad was pardoned and restored to his old position. Sayyid Ahmad again attacked Pesh&#257war in 1829 and Y&#257r Muhammad was killed in action.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Cunningham, Joseph Davey, <i>A History of the Sikhs</i>. London, 1849<BR>
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<li class="C1"> Latif, Syad Muhammad, <i>History of the Punjab</i>. Calcutta, 1891<BR>
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</ol><p class="CONT">Har&#299 R&#257m Gupta<br></p><BR>
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