 Then, Ragunathrao and Malharrao decided to withdraw from the Doab, and gave its lands to the Wazir, Imad-ul-Mulk and started focusing on Punjab expedition to liberate that province from the Durrani empire.Ahmad Shah Abdali had annexed the province of Punjab from the Mughal Empire in his invasion of 1757.He had appointed his son Timur Shah as the governor of Punjab province.