Editing Multan (section)

===Durrani and Maratha invasions===
In 1752 [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] captured Multan, the city which was also his birthplace,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3amnMPTPP5MC&q=durrani+empire+captures+multan&pg=PA295|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E|access-date=29 December 2014|isbn=9780313335372|last1=Jaques|first1=Tony|year=2007|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref> and the city's walls were rebuilt in 1756 by [[Nawab Ali Mohammad Khan Khakwani]],<ref name="Calcutta Review, Volumes 92-93"/> who also built the [[Ali Muhammad Khan Mosque]] in 1757. In 1758, the [[Marathas]] under [[Raghunathrao]] briefly seized Multan,<ref name=K.RoyIHB>{{cite book | last=Roy |first=Kaushik |title=India's Historic Battles: From Alexander the Great to Kargil |publisher=Permanent Black, India |pages=80–1 |isbn=978-81-7824-109-8|year=2004 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first=Mountstuart |last=Elphinstone |title=History of India | url=https://archive.org/details/historyindia02elphgoog |publisher=John Murray, Albemarle Street |year=1841 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyindia02elphgoog/page/n318 276]}}</ref> appointing [[Adina Beg|Adina Beg Khan]] as the [[List of monarchs of Punjab|Nawab of Punjab]] who left it in the hands of Salih Muhammad Khan, though the city was recaptured by Durrani in 1760. After repeated invasions following the collapse of the Mughal Empire, Multan was reduced from being one of the world's most important early-modern commercial centres, to a regional trading city.<ref name="Oonk"/>