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  • Thus, the Timurid ruler Zaheeruddin — better known as Babur — expanded his kingdom southwards from its origin in Ferghana, to incorporate, successively, the regions of Samarkand, Kabul and Peshawar before crossing the Jamuna into the Gangetic plain in 1526.

    War On Terrorism Handled Wrongly 2007

  • : 19 GMT, May 11, 2009 As the country's News Agency reported at the end of last week, on Wednesday Pakistan conducted a successful test-firing of its latest domestically manufactured cruise missile, known as Babur (or Babar, Hatf VII), exactly at the time President Asif Zardari was in Washington and due to meet US President Barack Obama.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • It also has the land attack cruise missile 'Babur' and the air-launched cruise missile 'Raad.'

    Chris van Avery's Big Feed 2010

  • In fact, any number of empire builders, from Alexander the Great to the Mogul emperor Babur in the sixteenth century to the British in the successful Second Afghan War three decades after their infamous defeat there, have won military victories in Afghanistan.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In fact, any number of empire builders, from Alexander the Great to the Mogul emperor Babur in the sixteenth century to the British in the successful Second Afghan War three decades after their infamous defeat there, have won military victories in Afghanistan.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Hindus first protested that the Ayodhya mosque, built in 1528 by the Mughal emperor Babur, had been erected at the birthplace of Rama more than 150 years ago.

    Security tight in India after court gives its Ayodhya verdict Jason Burke in Delhi 2010

  • Kabul, the old city fortress and walls, a site of infighting between mujaheddin factions; Baghi Babur, the garden of the tomb of the 16th-century Mogul emperor

    Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author 2010

  • The family was descended from Genghis Khan and Tamerlane the Great; Babur the boy-king became the first of the Mughal emperors, a family of Turko-Mongol rulers who, according to the historian Abraham Eraly, "so decisively stamped their personalities on India that the Mughal Empire became, in the public perception, synonymous with India."

    Great dynasties of the world: The Mughals 2011

  • Tamarlane's great-great-great grandson, Babur, would found the Mogul dynasty of India.

    Scott S. Smith: Art and Architecture of the Silk Road Scott S. Smith 2011

  • Tamarlane's great-great-great grandson, Babur, would found the Mogul dynasty of India.

    Scott S. Smith: Art and Architecture of the Silk Road Scott S. Smith 2011

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