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Mirza Isa Tarkhan
Mirza Isa Tarkhan was the founder of the Tarkhan dynasty of lower Sindh. An officer of the Arghun dynasty from a Mongol military family, he seized Thatta in 1554 as Arghun authority collapsed. He ruled until his death in 1572, and the Tarkhans held lower Sindh until the Mughal emperor Akbar annexed it in the early 1590s.
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