 Unlike his father, Abbas II took an active interest in government and military matters once he began to rule for himself (probably around age 15).In the summer of 1648, Abbas II, who sought to recapture Kandahar from the Mughal Empire, marched from Isfahan with an army of 40,000 men and after capturing Bost, he laid siege to Kandahar and captured it after a brief siege on 22 February 1649.Abbas II then appointed the Georgian "ghulam" ("military slave") Mihrab Khan as the governor of the city.