Shadi Khan was the governor of Mughal emperor Akbar at Kandahar, Afghanistan, at the start of the 17th century. In 1621, more than a decade after Akbar's death, Shadi Khan, with the help of the Abdali Pashtun tribe and opposed by Saddu Khan, allied with Abbas I of Persia, who had lost Kandahar in 1594 and was intriguing for its recovery.^[1]

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: The Panjab Chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi divisions of the Panjab, by Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1905)

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