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In 1776, Karim Khan Zand seized Basra and held it under Persian occupation for the next three years. As a result, the British East India Company used Kuwait instead of Basra as its terminal point for its caravan route Aleppo to the Persian Gulf. After several other quarrels with Ottoman authorities here, the British East India Company completely moved out to Kuwait. The British East India Company returned to Basra, however, in 1795 while Kuwait was in a power struggle between its different Islamic sects, mainly Wahhabi Islam and Sunni Islam.