[1] He is ethnically Pashtun and belongs to the Safi tribe originally from Mazar valley of Nurgal district of Kunar.
He was born in Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar province in 1964 where he also studied and graduated from Sayed Jamaluddin Afghan High School in 1981.
[1] In 1982 Munawar started working as a school teacher in Ahmad Kot Intermediate and then in Tawakal baba Intermediate School of Kuz Kunar district.
When Munawar migrated to Pakistan in 1993, developed his skills in music and established a voluntary association of Afghan singers based in Pakistan.
Today he also heads an association of Afghan singers in Jalalabad.