On 31 October 1925, he was accepted for the British Indian Army, being posted to the 4th Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment.

He served in Burma and British Malaya during the Second World War attached to the Assam Regiment.

[citation needed] He and Colonel M. A. G. Osmani met Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in March 1971 on behalf of the retired Bengali soldiers and showed their loyalty towards an independent Bangladesh.

[1] The army authorities intensely pressurized him to give a false statement against Sheikh Mujib denouncing him as a traitor, which he steadfastly refused to comply with.

He was later sent to the Dhaka Central Jail where he was held in isolation and finally released in August, 1971.

[3] Ayesha's eldest sister, Niaz Fatima, was married to Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.