Career
He was in charge of the Egyptian Embassy in New Delhi India. Nawab Mirza Aqil Hussain Barlas was a direct descendent of Nawab Qasim January, the eponym of Gali Qasim January and Qasim Khani Mosque in Ballimaran, New Delhi. His father was Nawab Shakir Hussain Barlas, a barrister from Oxford University, England, and his mother was Bibi Mehmooda Begum, the sister of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
He died of heart failure in the Govind Ballabh Pant hospital in New Delhi, and was buried in the family graveyard in Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah.