Editing Skardu (section)

=== Mughal period ===
In the early 1500s, [[Sultan Said Khan]] of the [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] [[Yarkent Khanate]], of what is now [[Xinjiang]], raided Skardu and Baltistan.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvu-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 |title=Central Asia in World History |last=Adshead |first=S. A. M. |date=27 July 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781349226245 |language=en}}</ref> Given the threat illustrated by Sultan Said's invasion, [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] attention was aroused, prompting the 1586 conquest of Baltistan by the Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]].<ref name="Dani-2" /> The local Maqpon rulers pledged allegiance, and from that point onwards, beginning with [[Ali Sher Khan Anchan]], the kings of Skardu were mentioned as rulers of Little Tibet in the historiography of the [[Mughal Empire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skardu.pk/ |title=Vacations, Holiday, Travel, Climbing, Trekkinpg |publisher=Skardu.pk |access-date=6 September 2015}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}}

Mughal forces again incurred into the region during the reign of [[Shah Jahan]] in 1634-6 under the forces of Zafar Khan, to settle a dispute over the throne between Adam Khan and his elder brother Abdul Khan.{{sfn|Pirumshoev & Dani, The Pamirs, Badakhshan and the Trans-Pamir States|2003|p=244}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Afridi |first=Banat Gul |title=Baltistan in History |publisher=Emjay Books International |date=1988  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQFuAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> It was only after this point in the rule of Shah Jahan and [[Aurangzeb]], that Skardu's ruling family was firmly under Mughal control.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tibetan Borderlands: PIATS 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 |author=International Association for Tibetan Studies |date=1 January 2006 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004154827 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SB9mAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> The ability of the Mughal crown to fund expeditions to territories of marginal value, such as Baltistan, emphasises the wealth of the Mughal coffers.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals |last=Dale |first=Stephen F. |date=24 December 2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781316184394 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNmaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT309 }}</ref>