He is a famous Pashto folk and Ghazal singer, musician, and composer with fan base from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and around the world.

[5] However, following the elections of February 2008, the 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 sing.

In April 2008, Peshawar's Nishtar Hall was the city’s only auditorium for promoting cultural activities,[6] which reopened after five years of closure due to the policies of the previous government.

In October 2017, he left Peshawar, crossing Torkham, to move to Kabul, due to financial hardship and alleged poor treatment of him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's cultural department.

He denied it, saying "I used to attend and perform at private functions and used to sing popular numbers advocating peace, brotherhood, mutual understanding and national cohesion,” the Dawn newspaper reported.