Afzal Khan's mercy, the Amirs continued to plot with Bukhara and in April 1860, around the same time Afzal Khan was still negotiating the submission of Murad Beg and Yusuf Ali Khan, all four of the remaining Chahar Wilayat states declared independence and formed a coalition against the Afghans. This included Sar-I-Pul, Sheberghan, Andkhui, and Maimana. The Amirs began raiding Afghan outposts and Afzal Khan was put in a dire situation, as he feared that if he withdrew troops from Qataghan, it would also rebel. Alongside this, the reinforcements under Sher Ali from Kabul had not arrived yet. As a result, the situation in the Chahar Wilayat west of Balkh was in disarray, as a force of around six thousand men led by Mir Qilij Khan, the beglarbegi of Sar-I-Pul, captured a fort from the Afghans, which wielded over 150,000 rupees in revenue. Despite this initial success, the Chahar Wilayat rulers who believed that Nasrullah Khan would join the war on the account of their success, were immediately disappointed when Bukharan armies yet again did not fufill their part of the deal and remained on the other side of the Amu Darya river. The Amirs had some success as Dost Mohammad was still stuck in persuading Sher Ali's force and spent time confiscating the property of rebellious chiefs and expelled them alongside their families from his realm under armed guard. It was not until 9 June 1860 that Sher Ali's force departed from Kabul, in which the rebellion in the Chahar Wilayat was growing out of hand and Afzal Khan gambled by withdrawing cavalry from Qataghan to deal with the situation west of Balkh, thus risking a rebellion in Qataghan. The Afghan army under Afzal Khan marched on Aqcha, facing little opposition and forced Hakim Khan of Sheberghan and Ghazanfar Khan of Andkhui to tender their submission to Dost Mohammad Khan, leaving the rebellion, on the condition that they be allowed to govern their respective fiefs. From Sheberghan, Afzal Khan marched his forces southward to deal with the rebellious Amir Mir Qilij Khan of Sar-I-Pul. Qilij Khan was reinforced by irregulars from Maimana and established an active resistance against the advancing Afghans. Despite this, Afzal Khan deployed two and a half thousand men against a fort that Qilij Khan had recently captured, and after a skirmish, the forces of Qilij Khan were completely routed, with over 70 dead. As a