Another Mongol force had invaded Kashmir some…
December 1241 CE
Another Mongol force had invaded Kashmir some time after 1235, stationing a darughachi (administrative governor) there for several years, and Kashmir had become a Mongolian dependency.
Around the same time, a Kashmiri Buddhist master, Otochi, and his brother Namo had arrived at the court of the Great Khan Ögedei.
Another Mongol general named Pakchak had attacked Peshawar and defeated the army of tribes who had deserted Jalal ad-Din but were still a threat to the Mongols.
These men, mostly Turkic, had escaped to Multan and had been recruited into the army of the Delhi Sultanate.
The elite group of forty nobles named Chihalgani ("the Forty") have become disorderly during the reign of the sixth sultan, Muiz-ud-din Bahram, and constantly bicker among themselves.
It is during this period of unrest that the Mongols invade the Indus valley and besiege Lahore in winter 1241.
General Dayir is killed while storming the town.
On receiving news of the death of the Great Khan Ögedei, the Mongols under Munggetu butcher the entire population of the city on December 30, 1241, before withdrawing from the Delhi Sultanate.
There are today no buildings or monuments in Lahore that predate the Mongol destruction.
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