Career
He was involved in the 1933 Battle of Kashgar and participated before in Turpan Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist Young Kashgar Party and appointed himself as "Timur Shah". He and other Uighurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China.
Timur was shot and beheaded and his head was put on a pike, to be displayed at the Idgah mosque in Kashgar.