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Correct Answer: Option (C) — A is true but R is false
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Standard Reference VerifiedAssertion (A) is true: In 1581, Akbar led an expedition to Kabul to quell the rebellion of his half-brother Mirza Muhammad Hakim and secure the northwestern boundary. Reason (R) is false: Akbar's campaign was to suppress internal rebellion and stabilize Kabul as a defensive buffer for the Mughal Empire, not to reconquer the ancestral homeland of Ferghana in Central Asia.
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