Every nation goes through rise and fall. In 18th century Pashtuns emerged as powerful players but 19th century was period of their fall and failures, while Sikhs emerged as new power who challenged the predations of Pashtuns into Punjab, then farangis appeared and taught lessons to every one. The thread starter,
@Zarrar Alvi (the one copy pasting from wiki) should study history more deeply, It was Sikh empire vs Durrani empire. Sikhs didnt share power and authority with their punjabi muslaman subjects, Afghans did the same when they were masters of punjab. It were sikhs, not punjabi muslaman, who were waging guerrilla war against Afghan rulers of punjab. Punjabi musalman were not even in position to challenge either sikhs or afghans, they were powerless and weak spectators. I would place not place sikhs on the same level and category as punjabi-muslims, rulers and ruled can not be on same level.