 Though victorious in the field, the Mughals were unable to secure the conquered territories and Shah Jahan was forced to recall his armies from Badakhshan.Encouraged by the Mughal reversal in Badakhshan, in the summer of 1648 Shah Abbas II marched from Isfahan with an army of 40,000.After capturing Bost he laid siege to Kandahar and easily captured it after a brief siege on 22 February 1649.