Lieutenant Herbert Edwardes, the British political agent in Bannu, was near Multan then, and he sent his Pakhtun irregulars and some Sikh regiments to drive back the rebels. Together, they defeated Mulraj’s army at the battle of Kineyri on 18 June 1848. The British Resident Currie then ordered a small force from the Bengal army to lay siege to the city of Multan, wanting to crush the centre of defiance once and for all. In November, the East India Company’s armies also joined the battle, and eventually Multan fell.
