Career
Gulzar Alam worked in Pakistan Air force for sometime. He left singing due to bad law and order situation in the region. He was helpless to do so because of the Fundamentalist"s rise in the province.
He stopped singing after receiving anonymous letters warning of the consequences of singing in public and started selling property instead, however he eventually fled to Karachi.
However following the elections of February 2008 the secular nationalist Awami National Party replaced the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal and they not only opened Nashtar Hall for cultural activities but invited Gulzar Alam back to singing. Gulzar Alam accepted the invitation wholeheartedly and started his singing career again.
In April 2008, Peshawar"s Nishtar Hall was the city’s only auditorium for promoting cultural activities, had reopened after five years of closure due to the policies of the previous government - Gulzar was one the artists who performed at the reopening. Many of his albums can still be found in Pakistani music stores, but the lack of a royalty system keeps him from earning money from their sales.