During the reign of his father, Sulaiman Khan Karrani, he was given the command of a force on a campaign to Orissa in 1567.
The campaign was successful and the king, who was an Eastern Chalukya from Andhra who had conquered Orissa in the 1550s, was defeated.
Assuming power, he broke allegiance and the outward suzerainty with the Mughal Empire which his father had established, and declared independence.
[3] These actions turned the Afghan chiefs and nobles of his father, against Bayazid - making him an unpopular ruler.
Bayazid attempted to banish the Afghan nobles, eventually leading to them conspiring against him.