[3][4][5][6][7] Sobha Singh was from the Kanhaiya Misl, a Sikh grouping with a distinct guerilla militia.
[8] With its Governor of Punjab Lehna Singh Kahlon Installed by Pashtun King Amir Ahmad Shah Abdali 1747–1772 of Afghanistan Durrani first crossed the Indus River in 1748, the year after his ascension – his forces sacked and absorbed Lahore during that expedition.
The following year (1749), the Mughal ruler was induced to cede Sindh Delhi, Vrndavana Mathura and Kashmir and all of the Punjab including the vital trans Indus River to Afghan Pashtun forces of the Durrani Empire.
To Suba Singh went the area to the south of the Walled Lahore City, and he resided in the garden of Zubaida Begum in Nawankot, where he built a small fort for himself.
Gujjar Singh Banghi erected that part of the city, then a jungle and invited people to settle there.