[1] Ahmed was born in Rawalpindi (then in India) in 1909 and graduated in science from the Government College in Lahore.
[2] Accortding to cartoonist Kamal Sarkar, the years between 1946 and 1950 saw Ahmed at his peak, a period when he drew with gusto, and his cartoons served a political purpose.
[3] In 1947, Ahmed's criticism of the Muslim League in his cartoons led to threats from Islamic fundamentalist groups.
According to his obituary in The Independent, none other than Mahatma Gandhi advised Ahmed to leave India immediately.
He returned in 1948 and remained the paper's lead cartoonist till his retirement in 1961, after which he continued his association through his comic strip 'Chandu'.