Mirza Askari (Persian: میرزا عسکری, c. 1635 — 12 May 1710), better known by his title Wazir Khan, was the Mughal Faujdar of the Sirhind region in the present-day Indian state of Punjab, and administered the territory that lay between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers.

[2][3][4][5] According to Sikh sources, Mirza Askari (Wazir Khan) was born around 1635 and was a native of then Kunjpura and Karnal district of modern-day Haryana.

[7] He was the governor of Sirhind when he arrested the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh.

Wazir Khan tried to force the young sons of the Guru to embrace Islam.

[9] His body was desecrated, dragged by an ox, and then hung onto a tree.