[2] She was an ambitious lady who threw out the Naib Subadar and ruled Kabul on her own, once leading her army in person and defeating Munim Khan at Jalalabad.
Mah Chuchak Begum then appointed Fazli Beg as Vakil and Abdulfath as Naib (regent), but being dissatisfied with them, she killed them both, at the advice of Shah Wali, one of her nobles.
Around this time a certain Shah Abul Maali, who belonged to the family from the great Sayyids of Termez (present-day Uzbekistan), who had escaped from the prison at Lahore, arrived at Kabul and approached Mah Chuchak Begum for refuge.
[citation needed] Shah Abul Maali soon grew tired of the dominating and interfering ways of Mah Chuchak Begum.
The activities of Mah Chuchak Begum and her political ambitions certainly proved to be a headache for Akbar and troubled him like a sore thumb, just when he was trying to consolidate his father's inherited, lost and finally gained empire in India.
[citation needed] In 2013, a television series called Jodha Akbar aired on Zee TV, in which the role of Mah Chuchak Begum was played by actress Mita Vashisht.