Some Historic Details about Sultan Qutb uddin Aibak

Qutbuddin was born somewhere in the area of what is today known as Afghanistan; he was of Turkic descent There are also evidence that he might be from the town of Aybak which serves as the provincial capital of Samangan Province. While still a child he was captured and sold as a slave (ghulam). He was purchased by the chief Qazi of Nishapur, a town in the province of Khorasan in northeastern Iran. The Qazi treated him like one of his own sons, and Aibak received a very good education in all the major subjects, was a very brave warrior and an appreciable ruler and intelligent in languages including fluency in Persian and Arabic and training in archery and horsemanship. When his master died, his master's sons, who were jealous of Aibak, sold him to a slave merchant. Aibak was, then, finally purchased by the great General Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghauri, then governor of Ghazni.
Shahabuddin Ghauri proved to be a distinguished personality of the history and managed to establish control over most of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. Under his command, Qutbuddin conquered Delhi in 1193 after the victory in the Battles of Tarain. As governor of northern India, Aibak was very refined and established the first verifiable Muslim administration through collection of state taxes, establishing the rule of law, equitable distribution of land and revenues to the nobles under his charge, and governance based on a mixture of locally elected representation through Mashura courts and nominated administrators on every rank to ensure the good working of the government.
Qutbuddin rose through the ranks to become the Emperor Muhammad Ghauri's most trusted general. His greatest military successes occurred while he was directly under Ghauri's guidance and leadership. Qutb was responsible for executing and consolidating Ghauri's conquests in northern India. He was left in increasingly independent charge of the Indian campaigns and the exaction of levies from the areas in India that were under Sultan Ghauri's conquests, as after 1192 the ambitious Sultan Ghauri concentrated on Central Asia.
Sultan Qutbuddin died accidentally in 1210. While he was playing a game of polo in Lahore on horseback (Polo known as Chougan in India), his horse fell and the sultan was impaled on the pommel of his saddle. Aibak's tomb is located behind Anarkali Bazaar, Lahore today and is a famous tourist site. In the early 1970s, it was renovated at the orders of the then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.