[1] He was born in Delhi in 1946 and started as a stage singer in the 1960s in Karachi, when he was a member of a famous singing group with two other artists, Masood Rana and Nadeem.

[2] Akhlaq Ahmad was the third generation of male playback singers in the Pakistan film industry.

[3][4] Earlier Akhlaq Ahmed had first started singing for friends at gathering just for fun.

[2] Akhlaq Ahmed spent the last few years of his life fighting the disease of blood cancer which was diagnosed back in 1985.

[2] His wife, an employee at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) admitted him at a hospital in London.