However, Mohammad Khan Baloch rejected Nader's demand and replied: "I firmly decided to sacrifice myself for the task I had set.

Returning from the debacle in front of the gates of Baghdad, Mohammad Khan Baloch seized the opportunity that this vacuum of power and authority in the country afforded him to take up arms in the hope of carving out his own independent fiefdom.

Poised to take Baghdad, he was ultimately forced to turn back and deal with Mohammad Khan's strengthening rebellion.

The rebel leader fled to Shiraz and on to the coast of the Persian Gulf, where he sought to escape to an island using the services of some pirates.

Nader also ordered reprisals against the population centres in the south that were connected to the revolt; many of the tribes that had participated were forcibly migrated further east.