After victory in the Third Battle of Panipat, Ahmad Shah Durrani sent General Nuruddin with 12,000 soldiers to chastise Sikhs.

Charat Singh Sukerchakia attacked Nuruddin's army at Sialkot.

Nuruddin escaped and the Sikhs won a great victory in the 1761 Battle of Sialkot.

They met at Amritsar on 27 October 1761, the day of Diwali, and decided to capture Lahore.

The Sikhs besieged Lahore, Khawaja obed did not oppose the Sikh attack, Sikhs entered the Lahore city, plundered the city,[5] captured the Royal mint and struck coins bearing Sikka Zad dar Jahan Bafazat-i-Akal, mulk-i-Ahmad garift Jassa Kalal, which means 'Coin struck in the World by the Grace of the Immortal in the Country of Ahmad captured by Jassa Kalal'[6]