He is related to the royal family of Loharu and to the famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.
He is interested in computers and knows several computer programming languages including Assembly, C Basic, Visual Basic and dialects of Dbase (including Clipper) and has written two stand-alone accounting software packages for lawyers: ACT-C and ACT-S.
He was member of the St Stephen's College Tennis Team and played Tennis and Squash for Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. Ahmed is married to Saba Durrez Ahmed (born on 2 February 1959), younger daughter of Nawab Sayyid Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur, by his wife Begum Noor Bano.
[4] He served in that position for fifteen years, before being appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
During his eleven-month tenure as Chief Justice of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, he delivered a landmark judgment wherein he acquitted the accused Subhash Chander Sharma, who was sentenced to death under section 302 RPC and 498A RPC by the Sessions Judge, Jammu.