He succeeded Dželalija Hasan-paša (who died in Belgrade) as governor of the Temeşvar Eyalet.
There are insufficient sources alleging that part of the Malkoçoğlu family (Malkočević) received sipahi status in Duge near Prozor, hence their name.
[2] In 1598, Ahmed-paša Dugalić served as the governor of the Bosnia Eyalet.
[4] Ahmed-paša made peace with Grdan, the leader of the Serb Uprising of 1596–97, and forgave him,[5] doing nothing to Grdan, not even stripping him of his voivodeship of the Nikšić nahija.
[8] With the death of Dželalija Hasan-paša in Belgrade in 1605,[8] Ahmed-paša Dugalić succeeded as governor of the Temeşvar Eyalet.