Career
In 1768, Mehmed Pasha became the governor of the sanjak of Scutari. In 1769 he fought in Zadrima. He continued the Scutari pretensions over Montenegro and Brda, and planned to suppress their revolt.
In early April 1774, he was in Podgorica and met with some chieftains of the northern Albanian tribes to discuss the planned operation.
In 1774, in the same month of the death of Šćepan Mali, he attacked the Kuči and Bjelopavlići with 15,000 troops, but was decisively defeated and returned to Scutari. The Bushati family claimed that it descended from the Islamized son of Lord Ivan Crnojević, Skenderbeg Crnojević.
That tradition strengthened the family"s pretention over the Montenegro Vilayet.