When the Uzbek Khan, Muhammad Shaybani besieged Kandahar, Babur found his nascent Kingdom of Kabul in trouble. He felt that Kabul would be the next target of the Uzbeks. So he consulted with his men and decided the only way out was to leave for India. What was to be Babur's second Indian expedition (and is considered by many Muslim historians including Abul Fadl as his second Indian expedition), became an operation of watch and see by keeping himself near Kabul and going around eastern provinces of Afghanistan to subdue rebellious Afghans and plundering towns and villages for supplies for his army's survival.