The Governor General, apprehensive of the advance of Russia in Central Asia, executed the famous " Tripartite Treaty " with Maharaja Ranjit Singh the ruler of Punjab and Shan Shauja, the Amir of Afghanistan, with the object of the reestablishment of Shah Shauja on the throne of Kabul.
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The Tripartite Pact ( also called the Three-Power Pact, the Axis Pact, the Three-way Pact or the Tripartite Treaty ), an agreement signed in Berlin ( Germany ) on September 27, 1940, linked Germany, Italy and Japan as the Axis powers of World War II . On November 24, 1940, Slovakia also signed the Tripartite Pact.
