Safiullah Khan served as the tehsil collector of Abbottabad under British Raj, appointed by the Governor of Khyber George Roos-Keppel, and later became the Minister of Defence of the Nawab of Amb.
[1] He fought in the Battle of Chamla and in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948.
He spent his youth in France, Germany and London.
[citation needed] He also worked with Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah.
He controlled all the police stations of Darband, Amb.