Background
He was born in Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar province in 1964 where he also studied and graduated from Sayed Jamaluddin Afghan High School in 1981.
He was born in Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar province in 1964 where he also studied and graduated from Sayed Jamaluddin Afghan High School in 1981.
He is ethnically Pashtun and belongs to Safi tribe originally from Mazar valley of Nurgal district of Kunar. He has also serviced twice in military as conscript. During the years of Taliban in Afghanistan in 1993 he migrated to Pakistan.
He lives in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
When he migrated to Pakistan in 1993, developed his skills in music and also established a voluntary association of Afghan singers based in Pakistan, today he also heads an association of Afghan singers in Jalalabad.