[5] His term in the office was one of the few periods of peace in the history of the Ottoman Empire, as the war against the Habsburg monarchy and the Russian Empire had just ended and Nader Shah, Shah of Persia, was occupied in Transoxiana and Daghestan.

Despite the favorable conditions, Ahmed Pasha was unable to take advantage of the political state of peace and failed to follow his intended program of recovery and reform.

He was dismissed from the post on 21 April 1742 and was replaced by the more experienced Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha, who had already once served a term as grand vizier 10 years ago.

That year, a new war with Persia broke out, and Ahmed Pasha was given command (Turkish: serdar) of northern Anatolia, where he successfully defended Kars against Nader.

However, Ahmed Pasha refused this last position in Adana, and in 1752, he returned to his former governorship in Aleppo, where he died in February 1753.