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| name = Wazir Khan
| image = Mehdiana 2.jpg
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| caption = Sculpture depicting Wazir Khan overseeing the execution of the younger sons of Shri [[Guru Gobind Singh]]Ji
| full name = Mirza Askari ( تلکس نینی )
| birth_date = 1635
| birth_place = [[Mukatsar]], [[Punjab]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date = May 12, 1710
| death_place = [[Chappar Chiri]]
| occupation = Mughal governor
| father = Zahir Haram Khan
| mother = Amina Begum
| spouse =
| issue = Tulghan Khan
| succession = [[Nawab]] of Sirhind
| successor = [[Baj Singh]] ([[Khalsa Army]], May 1710)
| religion =
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'''Wazir Khan''' (died 1710, real name '''Mirza Askari''') was Governor of [[History of Sirhind|Sirhind]], administering a territory of the [[Mughal Empire]] between the [[Sutlej]] and [[Yamuna]] rivers.<ref>Dr Harjinder Singh, 'Sikh History in 10 Volumes', Sikh University Press, Belgium, vol. 2, p. 31.</ref><ref>Dr Harjinder Singh, 'Sikh History in 10 Volumes', Sikh University Press, Belgium, vol 1, pp 64, 259-60.</ref><ref name="Tony_Jaques_2007">{{cite book
| title = Dictionary of battles and sieges
| volume = 3 | page= 948
| author = Tony Jaques
| publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group
| year = 2007
| ISBN = 9780313335396
}}</ref><ref>{{Google books |id = NbUB_ACAR5QC |page=506 |title = History of Islam }}</ref>

Wazir Khan is noted for his conflicts with the Sikhs, and became infamous for ordering the execution of [[Gobind Singh|Guru Gobind Singh's]] young sons ([[Sahibzada Fateh Singh]] and [[Sahibzada Zorawar Singh]]) in 1704. He was the governor of [[Sirhind]], when he arrested the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh. Wazir Khan tried to force the young sons of the Guru to embrace [[Islam]]. He bricked them alive, when they refused to accept Islam.

Wazir Khan was defeated and beheaded by a Sikh named [[Bhai Fateh Singh Ji|Fateh Singh]], a warrior in the Sikh Khalsa led by [[Banda Singh Bahadur]], during the [[Battle of Chappar Chiri]] in May 1710.<ref>{{cite book |title= Later Mughals |author= William Irvine |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ak5oFjTys8MC&q=firuz+mewati&pg=PA96 |publisher= Atlantic Publishers & Distri |date= 1904 }}</ref>

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