Shaikha Khokhar

Shaikha Khokhar was a Punjabi chieftain of the Khokhar tribe in the 14th century under whose chieftainship, the Khokhars resisted the Timurid invasion of Punjab in 1398 CE. A battle ensued between the Timurid forces, led by Timur, and a smaller Khokhar force, led by tribal chiefs Shaikha Khokhar and Nusrat Khokhar. According to the Tarikh-i-Farishta, written around 1612, by Firishta, a historian and scholar of the 16th century, the larger Timurid force was victorious, Shaikha seeing the futility of the situation decided to lead a desperate cavalry charge against the Timurid forces but was slain. He is known to have fought over 20 battles, emerging victorious in each, and captured Lahore on nine separate occasions.