Khwaja Abid Khan

Khwaja Abid Khan (an Uzbek officer of the former Mughal governors) was the 'Abdali' (Afgan) governor of Lahore. In 1762, he attacked the Sukarchakia misl at Gujranwala. Some Sikhs in his army turned sides and joined Charat Singh Sukarchakia's forces. Khwaja Abid was defeated and driven back to Lahore.

Ahmad Shah spent the whole of 1763 subduing a rebellion in the distant province of Khurasan. Hearing this, the Dal Khalsa assembled at Amritsar once again on the 4th of November and restored the Harmandar Sahib.

In February 1764 the Sikhs killed Khwaja Abid in a battle outside the city of Lahore. His deputy Kabuli Mal made peace by paying money to the Sikhs and cutting off the noses and ears of the butchers who had killed the cows at Amritsar in 1762 (the butchers not the men who had given the orders).