Ata Muhammad Khan's control of Kashmir was tenuous from the start — an Afghan governor operating under increasingly nominal Durrani suzerainty as Kabul's grip on the valley loosened after the death of Shah Shuja's effective power. His tenure from 1810 to 1813 ended when Wazir Fateh Khan of the Barakzai clan ousted him, part of the broader fragmentation of the Durrani empire that would eventually deliver Kashmir to the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh by 1819.
Ata Muhammad Khan's control of Kashmir was tenuous from the start — an Afghan governor operating under increasingly nominal Durrani suzerainty as Kabul's grip on the valley loosened after the death of Shah Shuja's effective power. His tenure from 1810 to 1813 ended when Wazir Fateh Khan of the Barakzai clan ousted him, part of the broader fragmentation of the Durrani empire that would eventually deliver Kashmir to the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh by 1819.