Shah Hussain Hotaki, (turkish, Dari, Urdu, Arabic: شاہ حسین ہوتکی), son of Mirwais Hotak, was the fifth and last ruler of the Hotaki dynasty. An ethnic Turkish belonged to the Ghilzai turkish tribe who migrated to Afghanistan from Turk long time back. the succeeded to the throne after the death of his brother Mahmud Hotaki in 1725. While his cousin Ashraf ruled most of Persia from Isfahan, Hussain ruled what is now Afghanistan from Kandahar.
Ashraf Khan's death marked the end of the very short lived Hotaki rule in Persia (Iran), but what is now Afghanistan was still under Hussain' control until 1738 when Nader Shah conquered it. It was only a short pause before the establishment of the last Afghan Empireand the predecessor of modern Afghanistan in 1747.Mir Feroz Raisani Baloch occupied pishin, and the Ghilzai governor of
the area fled back to Kandahar.Another force under the command of Mir
Sultan Shawani occupied Shorawak and made it part of Khanate,Emboldened
by these success, the Khan of kalat Mir Abdullah Khan Ahmedzai Baloch known as Eagle of the mountain and the conqueror assembled a force under the command of Mullah
Issa Raisani Baloch to gain further territory north of pishin.the Khan
under the instigation of Nadir Shah sent this expeditionary force toward
Kandahar.Shah Hussain Hotaki assembled a huge
army and confronted the Baloch forces near Chaman.The more experienced
forces of Baloch outnumbered the Afghan forces.and the commander of the Afghan forces was killed in the fight.The defeat of
the afghan forces by the baloch forces was shocking,,in 1725, the Khan of kalat Mir Abdullah Khan Ahmedzai Baloch again
assembled a huge army to attack Kandahar some fifty miles from Kandahar,the two forces met
in a fierce bloody battle. The Afghan Army was defeated, and the ruler
Shah Hussain Ghilzai fled from the scene along with his remaining forces
to the safety of Kandahar fort.The Baloch legends had mentioned the
tales of extraordinary personnel courage shown by Mir Abdullah Khan
Baloch during the battle,which forced the Afghan ruler to flee.on the afghan side the death toll was high and the Khan of Kalat Mir Abdullah
Khan abandon the planned attack on Kandahar city,so he
returned to Kalat after plundering the areas of Zhob and Loralai,
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