 The Arabs were defeated in Zabul in next invaded Zabul in 693 AD.Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Al Thaqifi, who had played a crucial role during the Second Fitna for the Umayyad cause, was appointed the governor of Iraq in 694 AD, further extended to Khurasan and Sistan in 697 AD.Al-Hajjaj also sponsored Muslim expansion in Makran, Sistan, Transoxiana and Sindh.