 Kabul and Kandahar, be brought under Mughal rule, for two primary reasons.Firstly, the Mughal kingdom in India was often viewed by them as a painfully small compensation for the loss of their homeland – Samarkand – which they had been driven out of by the Uzbeks.Beyond the internal administrative agendas, the Mughals always kept it a priority to expand the western frontier of the empire in the sentiment of ¬reconquista¬.