Q. What was the immediate cause for Ahmed Shah Abdali to invade and fight the Third Battle of Panipat ?

• (A) He wanted to avenge the expulsion by Marathas of his viceroy Timur Shah from Lahore
• (B) The frustrated governor of Jullundhar Adina Beg Khan invited him to invade Punjab.
• (C) He wanted to punish Mughal administration for non-payment of the revenues of the Chahar Mahal (Gujarat Aurangabad, Sialkot and Pasrur).
• (D) He wanted to annex all the fertile plains of Punjab upto the borders of Delhi to his kingdom