Editing Durrani Empire (section)

====Relations with China====
Alarmed by the expansion of China's [[Qing dynasty]] up to the eastern border of Kazakhstan, Ahmad Shah attempted to rally neighboring Muslim khanates and the Kazakhs to unite and attack China, ostensibly to liberate its western Muslim subjects.<ref>{{cite book |title=Holy war in China: the Muslim rebellion and state in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877 |last1=Kim |first1=Ho-dong |year=2004 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-4884-1 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9kfJ6MlMsJQC |access-date=2010-08-25 |archive-date=27 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427121934/https://books.google.com/books?id=9kfJ6MlMsJQC |url-status=live}}</ref> Ahmad Shah halted trade with Qing China and dispatched troops to [[Kokand]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Empire and the Khanate: a political history of Qing relations with Khoqand c. 1760–1860 |last1=Newby |first1=Laura J. |year=2005 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-14550-4 |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTmO416hNQ8C |access-date=2010-08-25 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617141740/https://books.google.com/books?id=KTmO416hNQ8C |url-status=live}}</ref> However, with his campaigns in India exhausting the state treasury, and with his troops stretched thin throughout Central Asia, Ahmad Shah lacked sufficient resources to do anything except to send envoys to [[Beijing]] for unsuccessful talks.