 In the 1750s, two Afaqi Khoja descendants, the brothers Burhān al-Dīn (خواجہ برہان الدین) and Khwāja-i Jahān (خواجہ جهان ), had been held by Dzungars as hostages in Ili.They aided the Qianlong Emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Empire in campaign for annihilating the Dzungars