Career
During the Tanzimat period he fought in the Albanian Revolt of 1843-1844, for participation he was interned in Anatolia. In 1878, he was one the orchestrators of the attack against Ottoman marshal Mehmed Ali Pasha, an event that marked the first military action of the league. During the consequent Ottoman-Albanian war his forces captured among others Uskub and Pristina.
He was captured in 1885 and sentenced to life imprisonment but was eventually released during a general amnesty period.